Heat cannot be separated from fire or beauty from The Eternal.

When I first left university I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office or doing HR. The attitude was 'My dear lady you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel I think has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself but always some manner of life.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that is our attitude.

You cannot control what happens to you but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you and in that you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Art cannot result from sophisticated frivolous or superficial effects.

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

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two it's bad art.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

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

Architecture is involved with the world but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work like any art.

Yet for my part deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Without this spirit Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Fairest and dearest your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.