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Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

All art is exploitation.

All I owe the world is my art.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Nature is the art of God.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.