I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Translation is the art of failure.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.