In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

In art economy is always beauty.

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.