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.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
The artist is nothing without the gift but the gift is nothing without work.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning.
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.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Art is not a thing it is a way.
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.