Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.