"A great artist is always before his time or behind it." - George Edward MooreTweet
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." - Lin YutangTweet
"Politics is the art of controlling your environment." - Hunter S. ThompsonTweet
"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call." - Sylvia PlathTweet
"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern." - R. Buckminster FullerTweet
"Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books." - Jerry SaltzTweet
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers." - Isaac NewtonTweet
"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design." - Jim HensonTweet
"To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting." - Jerry SaltzTweet
"Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever." - Jerry SaltzTweet