“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”

“A picture is a poem without words.”

“To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.”

“The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”

“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.”

“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.”

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”

“Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”

“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”

“Art is anything you can get away with.”

“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.”