“Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.”

“Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.”

“The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.”

“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”

“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.”

“Art must take reality by surprise.”

“I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.”

“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.”

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”

“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”

“Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.”

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”

“A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.”

“I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.”

“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”

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

“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”

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