It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.