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.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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.
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!'
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature — if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty — but mostly suffering!
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul'. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist'.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.
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