“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“It's clever, but is it Art?”

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”

“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”

“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”

“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”

“People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.”

“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”

“All I owe the world is my art.”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.”

“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.”

“Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.”

“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”

“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”

“To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.”

“I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.”

“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”