Art(212)

"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
Salvador Dali

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
Salvador Dali

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
Salvador Dali

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
Salvador Dali

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
Edgar Degas

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
Eugene Delacroix

"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
Howard Dietz

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."
Theodore Dreiser

"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."
John Gregory Dunne

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
Max Eastman