Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Politics is the art of the next best.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.