"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." - Pablo PicassoTweet
"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art." - Clara SchumannTweet
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas MertonTweet
"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." - Christopher MarloweTweet
"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own." - Harold CoffinTweet
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science." - Erich FrommTweet
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." - Walt WhitmanTweet
"It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years." - Jerry SaltzTweet
"What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world." - Emir KusturicaTweet
"In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them." - Thomas HuxleyTweet