An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Every artist was first an amateur.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Art is what you can get away with.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.