The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.