The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I am trying to say is I am trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

What is Art? It is the response of man creative soul to the call of the Real.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.