"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment." - Beverly SillsTweet
"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all." - Paul CezanneTweet
"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts." - Henry MillerTweet
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." - Paul GauguinTweet
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." - Amy LowellTweet
"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art." - William Ralph IngeTweet
"Art and science have their meeting point in method." - Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonTweet
"In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'" - Kristin Scott ThomasTweet
"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is." - Robert SmithsonTweet
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men." - PlatoTweet