It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

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.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

A picture is a poem without words.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

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.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

The best artists know what to leave out.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

The temple of art is built in words.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

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.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.