Nature is the art of God.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.
Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.