There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it is dead for you.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

A man work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I will say it.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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