All Quotes

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
‐‐ Konrad Adenauer

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.
‐‐ James P. Cannon

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
‐‐ Learned Hand

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
‐‐ Serge Schmemann

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
‐‐ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
‐‐ Karen Traviss

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.
‐‐ Chad Stahelski

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
‐‐ Mark Van Doren

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
‐‐ John Burroughs

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
‐‐ Nathan Sawaya

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
‐‐ David Mitchell

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
‐‐ Nicolas Chamfort

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
‐‐ John Tillotson

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
‐‐ Helen Vendler

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
‐‐ Ulysses S. Grant

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
‐‐ Leonard Baskin

'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
‐‐ Marco Brambilla

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
‐‐ Natalie Jeremijenko

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

The art world is filled with vibrancy.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
‐‐ Larry Gagosian

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.
‐‐ China Chow

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.
‐‐ Thomas Hoving

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.
‐‐ Robert Jarvik

The artificial is always innocent.
‐‐ Frank O'Hara

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
‐‐ Ellen Willis

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
‐‐ Novalis

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
‐‐ Georges Rouault

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
‐‐ Lewis Mumford

The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
‐‐ Adam Ferguson

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
‐‐ Albert Camus

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
‐‐ Emily Carr

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.
‐‐ Lil' Kim

The artist in me cries out for design.
‐‐ Robert Frost

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly