Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

My trade and art is to live.

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

We want to raise the art of living well.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.