“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.”

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”

“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”

“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”

“'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.”

“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”

“I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.”

“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”

“Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.”

“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.”

“I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.”

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”

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

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”

“Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.”

“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”

“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”