What I dream of is an art of balance of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing calming influence on the mind rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else even if it only be the art of raising lentils receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.

Dying is an art like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art after all but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

In the practical art of war the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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.

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

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.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

To an engineer good enough means perfect. With an artist there's no such thing as perfect.

When that shutter clicks anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things a poet in words a musician by sounds.