The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of ….

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings..

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or….

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his….

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully r….

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and r….

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan..

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one hap….

Thought is borne of failure..

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind..

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been crea….

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn….

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of other….

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris..

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much..

The Point of Power Is in the Present..

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual..

The future did not arrive..

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school..