Art
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books — especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy — it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.