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" Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. "

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" I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear. "

Timothy Olyphant

" No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" All good art is an indiscretion. "

Tennessee Williams

" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "

" There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. "

" As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. "

" All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. "

" From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. "

Marina Abramovic

" There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. "

" In art the best is good enough. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "

" When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. "

Edward Steichen

" All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

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

" Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. "

Stand-Up Comedy

" If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. "

" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "

" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "

" Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. "

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. "

Publilius Syrus

" The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. "

William Morris Hunt

" O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. "

" Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. "

" Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. "

" Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art. "

" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "

" Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do. "

" Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. "