Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith faith and freedom.

To me nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring dishonest dubious and uninteresting.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is can do or is worth on an existential alchemical level.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

To say nothing especially when speaking is half the art of diplomacy.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

There is nothing Sir too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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

It is in this power of saying everything and yet saying nothing too plainly that the perfection of art consists.