“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”

“Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.”

“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”

“I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.”

“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.”

“My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.”

“Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.”

“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”

“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.”

“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”

“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”

“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.”

“When art wins, everyone wins.”

“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.”

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”