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All I owe the world is my art.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you do not want it.

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.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

I am not dead and I do not have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it is fine. I think it is beautiful and a real work of art.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they are trying to write about. They have music.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Back then, I did not have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There is not enough time.

There is no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms have not.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.