The Art Quotes
When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.
Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.
Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.
Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.
Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.