“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
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“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
“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.”
“People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.”
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
“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.”
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”
“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”
“The art of creation is older than the art of killing.”
“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.”
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
“Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.”
“Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.”