Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Oh I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

I met my grandfather just before he died and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul a capacity a secret art of thinking feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

The 1990s after the reign of terror of academic vandalism will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning value beauty pleasure and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Art is creative for the sake of realization not for amusement... for transfiguration not for the sake of play.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for training.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art in graphics and illustration.

My culture-deprived aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is intimacy spirituality color aspiration towards the infinite expressed by every means available to the arts.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.

If we know the divine art of concentration if we know the divine art of meditation if we know the divine art of contemplation easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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