“It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.”

“Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.”

“After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.”

“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”

“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”

“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”

“Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.”

“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”

“When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.”

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”

“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.”

“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”

“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”

“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

“A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.”

“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”