“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.”

“Art lies by its own artifice.”

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”

“I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.”

“Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

“Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'”

“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

“It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.”

“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”

“Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.”

“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”

“Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.”

“I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.”

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”

“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”