'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

A picture is a poem without words.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

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.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

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

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

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.

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.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

All art is but imitation of nature.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

All art is quite useless.

All good art is an indiscretion.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

All I owe the world is my art.

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.

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.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art is not a thing it is a way.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

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

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Art is science made clear.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art is the proper task of life.

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

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

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

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

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.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

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.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

By the work one knows the workman.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

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.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

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.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

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.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

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

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

History develops, art stands still.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

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

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

I hate art auctions.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

I love to collect modern art.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

I paint with shapes.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

I'm not interested in pop art.

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

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

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

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.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.