The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Men is magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women is magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

My trade and art is to live.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can not fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they will take you away, man. You can not.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man cruelty and baseness.

Space is the breath of art.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.