The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.