arts

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."

"A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art."

"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it."

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

"Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements."

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

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

"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."

"Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance."

"Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?"

"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."

"Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.''Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake."

"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."

"It's clever, but is it Art?"

"It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned."

"All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture."