The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.