arts

"I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art."

"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age."

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."

"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

"Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them."

"Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator."

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."

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

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."