Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.

There is no God but one God and Art is his revealer; that’s my creed and I'll follow it to the end, to a hotter place than Pittsburgh if need be.

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”

“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”

“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.”