The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
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 more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
Where thou art, that is home.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.
Art is eternal, but life is short.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
History develops, art stands still.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Art depends on luck and talent.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Space is the breath of art.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.