“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
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“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.”
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
“That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.”
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”
“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”
“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”
“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”
“The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.”
“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”
“Art is an attempt to integrate evil.”
“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.”
“The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.”
“Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.”
“Education is the art of making man ethical.”
“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.”
“The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.”
“One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.”
“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
“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.”
“Art is the signature of civilizations.”
“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.”
“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.”
“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”