As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

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

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

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