I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.