The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.
Art is the perfection of nature,. . . nature is the art of God.
Art is the god you have not seen.
Art is doing something you really believe in.
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
I don't see what else you can spend your money on. . . If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.
Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.
The end of art is peace.
Art is good but it isn't the best.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
Art is hard for a puritan to understand.
Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.
Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.
Art is but imitation of nature.
I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.