There is no must in art because art is free.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
To be creative means to connect. It’s to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
Art is what defines us, what makes us human.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that’s already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
We have to support our local artists. It’s just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Art is for everybody.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn’t really have judgement in it’s purest form. So just go, just go.
I don’t make a particular distinction between ‘high art’ and ‘low art.’ Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
