People who have made comparative studies of many different societies, know that when status is ascribed, rather than achieved, individual efforts towards excellence are not directed through any form of innovation; rather, the enhancement of status oc...
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.
Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
