“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
“Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.”
“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.”
“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”
“The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”