Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

The woman who loves always smells good.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Demons are like obedient dogs they come when they are called.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

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.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.