Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Land really is the best art.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one own value.

To do a dull thing with style-now that is what I call art.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men is lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you are born a sinner and you do not really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called Antichrist Superstar.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I have found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, Where is the art? They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

People who do not like me talk about it as though I am trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it is 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It is a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Art is man constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

It is clever, but is it Art?