Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every ‘world’ I’ve been in, most people I’ve meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the ‘70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.
Art is anything you can get away with.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That’s what art forms are about.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
Art is nothing if you don’t reach every segment of the people.
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.
Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.
Art is forever.
Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does in general, is get rid of all the noise. It hones in and isolates the qualities of a scene.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
