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.
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.
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.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
The message of great art is to disturb.
I think, in any profession, what you fear most is not being able to perform, about not being able to meet new challenges. The fear of non-acceptance, particularly if in creative art. What happens if the audiences do not like you anymore!
