The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Design is not making beauty beauty emerges from selection affinities integration love.

The past itself as historical change continues to accelerate has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

But the gravest difficulty and perhaps the most important in poetry meant solely for recitation is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids it's how you look at your life what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

By making a comeback I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically I'd have done it years ago.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves they run about loose hungering for employment and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations which have all to do with making things already made is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York ' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

The excellency of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Eloquence n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

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

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