“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.”

“To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.”

“Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.”

“You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.”

“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.”

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”

“The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”

“You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.”

“The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.”

“The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.”

“Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.”

“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”

“Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

“All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.”

“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”

“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”

“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”

“When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.”

“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”