At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

20.

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

21.

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

22.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

23.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

24.

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

25.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

26.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

28.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

29.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

30.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

31.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

32.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

36.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

38.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

39.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

40.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

41.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

43.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.