Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
You don’t have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Land really is the best art.
Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system.
Nature is the art of God.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
