The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

I went into the business for the money and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark I can't help it. It's the truth.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and whilst abroad underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

I think in art but especially in films people are trying to confirm their own existences.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning restless urge to write or paint simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion some polemic I think is good. It shows that people are interested people are involved.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place of course. It affects me everywhere I see it as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami because of the people the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.