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There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

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

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

All art is but imitation of nature.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Art and science are intrinsically the same except for one thing. The universe is in control of your science, whether it's right or wrong, and the public are in control of your art - if they're going to buy it, if you're going to make a living that way.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.