arts

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

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

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

"We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'"

"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

"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."

"Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art."

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

"Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food."

"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."

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."

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

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

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

"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."

"The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol."

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."