You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
Art cannot save anybody from anything.
Where does contagion end and art begin?
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
Art didn’t have to provide answers. It only had to ask questions.
Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?
Art is anything you can get away with.
