Art Quotes - Page 835

We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering and dishonesty. This needs to come into the open or there will never be peace in the hearts of us violated.

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom. I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business, which is where I am now.

Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.

I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it. In the beginning, it was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time.

Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

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

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Fascism is not an article for export.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.