Form your life humanly and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately even though there's pressure to.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage to love my first language Spanish to learn about Mexican history music folk art food and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.

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.

My culture-deprived aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The sadness of the incomplete the sadness that is often Life but should never be Art.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art never improves but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business the business of building entertainment.

Art is never finished only abandoned.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

I've never really had a hobby unless you count art which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.