One eye sees, the other feels.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Where thou art, that is home.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Nature is the art of God.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

The best artists know what to leave out.

A picture is a poem without words.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

History develops, art stands still.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

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

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Patience is the art of hoping.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

A man's 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.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Art is I; science is we.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

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

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Space is the breath of art.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.