The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art only being disagreed with.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent subtle and sophisticated people with organized societies and great art.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

Modernity is the transitory the fugitive the contingent which make up one half of art the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element which is constantly changing must not be despised or neglected.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for training.

Modernity is the transient the fleeting the contingent it is one half of art the other being the eternal and the immovable.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992 an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling money was scarce and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings performance art John Cage Joseph Beuys and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile a new art world was coming into being.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures being shown for the first time were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out giving a piece of yourself no matter in which art form in which medium.

So many gods so many creeds so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

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.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do and I'll say it.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.