Art
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art — that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Art is born of humiliation.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.
