“Things are beautiful if you love them.”

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”

“To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.”

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

“'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.”

“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”

“What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.”

“You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.”

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

“I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.”

“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”

“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

“How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?”

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”

“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”

“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”

“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”