As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.