My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

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

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