Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Alchemy. The link between the immemorial magic arts and modern science. Humankind's first systematic effort to unlock the secrets of matter by reproducible experiment.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world not an escape from it.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

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

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.