Art
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The art of communication is the language of leadership.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
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.