Art is anything people do with distinction.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.