Art quotes

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Space is the breath of art.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

My trade and art is to live.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.