You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.