In love as in art, good technique helps.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.
The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.
Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.
Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.
Art chooses its constraints.
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.
Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.
Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.
Art can make chaos seductive.
