There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
One day I would like to have my own art show.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.