The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination not invention is the supreme master of art as of life.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings and every time I look at them I see something different.

Reading is an art form and every man can be an artist.

Seek art from every time and place in any form to connect with those who really move you.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

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.