It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.