Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.