“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
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“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
“When art critics get together, they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together, they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
“When you create art, the world has to wait.”
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”
“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”
“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”