Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David Ogilvy

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

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus

It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Dave Barry

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald