The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many age….

I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Bla….

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a ….

You have to find your own style, and it's difficult to define what style is. It's not what you're wearing; it's how you wear it. It's something very ….

Sure we girls can wear pants now, and vote, and go to college, have a bank account, get a job that is not just stewardess or nurse. But we still have….

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art..

With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all the same; I thin….

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice..

To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and….

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of….

By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as fa….

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not tha….

The least-challenging way to make art for me would be to reinforce decorative formalism or find a way to extend entertainment values. Humor can somet….

To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished wo….

Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others..

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path..

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a conce….

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation..

Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resis….

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value..

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call ….