Art
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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring — an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Politics is the art of the next best.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.