“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

“I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.”

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.”

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”

“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”