You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.