In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.