Fran Lebowitz

"Anything simple always interests me."

David Hockney

"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?"

M. C. Escher

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

Andre Gide

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

Andre Gide

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature."

Marcel Proust

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

Kahlil Gibran

"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."

Octavio Paz

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Paul Gauguin

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

Elbert Hubbard

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

Amy Lowell

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

Twyla Tharp

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

Theodore Dreiser

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

Jean Cocteau

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."

Jules Feiffer

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Cecil Beaton

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

Andy Warhol

"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."

Howard Dietz

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

Scott Adams

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

Ted Shawn

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

Andy Warhol

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

Henri Matisse