“Art is the triumph over chaos.” — John Cheever Quote

Art is the triumph over chaos.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Needless to say, anybody who can stumble through a C-major scale knows that Art Tatum always gave his audiences 10 times their money's worth.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.