The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.

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

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Every good painter paints what he is.

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

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

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

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

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

For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

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

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

Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

'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.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

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

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.