Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

art

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Where thou art, that is home.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

It's clever, but is it Art?

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

History develops, art stands still.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Nature is the art of God.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Resolve and thou art free.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

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

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

My trade and art is to live.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

What is art? Prostitution.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

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

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

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

Art is science made clear.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Every artist was first an amateur.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Space is the breath of art.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Art is not a thing it is a way.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

By the work one knows the workman.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I paint with shapes.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Land really is the best art.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

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.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

All art is quite useless.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the proper task of life.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.