Quotes on Art

Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

Look within, thou art the Buddha.

Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.