The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
