Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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.
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.
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.