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" I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. "

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" I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. "

" Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. "

" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "

" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. "

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

Henry Kissinger

" If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. "

" I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. "

" I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. "

" We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art. "

" The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. "

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "

" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

" Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. "

John C. McGinley

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. "

Albert Einstein

" Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. "

" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "

" There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. "

" It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. "

" Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' "

Edgar Allan Poe

" Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. "

" Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. "

" The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. "

" I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing. "

" The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. "

" Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art. "

" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "

David Cronenberg

" I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. "

" Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. "

Roy Lichtenstein