Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.