“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.”
Quotes about art
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“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.”
“Space is the breath of art.”
“Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.”
“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.”
“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”
“Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'”
“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”
“You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.”
“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”
“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.”
“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
“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.”
“Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”
“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.”
“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.”
“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”