Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.