Art
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The art of communication is the language of leadership.
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.
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.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
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.
The message of great art is to disturb.
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
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!
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
