Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.