Art

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

—Robert Delaunay

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

—Oscar Wilde

I believe only in art and failure.

—Jane Rule

I hate flowers—I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

—Harry S. Truman

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

—Bachelard

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work—I merely inflict myself upon the public.

—Robert Morley

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

—Kurt Vonnegut

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

—Johnny Carson

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

—Claude Monet

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

—W. Somerset Maugham