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

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

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

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

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

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

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

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

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

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.

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail 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.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

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

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

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

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

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

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.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Baking is both an art and a science.

I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Art is all a matter of personality.