Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves they run about loose hungering for employment and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations which have all to do with making things already made is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York ' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

The excellency of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Eloquence n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

I have no fear of making changes destroying the image etc. because the painting has a life of its own.