“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”

“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

“Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.”

“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”

“Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!”

“After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.”

“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.”

“One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.”

“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”

“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”

“It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.”

“The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.”

“The art of creation is older than the art of killing.”