In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

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.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.