Art
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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 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.
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!'
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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.
France has lived a long time — eight or nine centuries — and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art — sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts — as inseparable components of a new architecture.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.