History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!
We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the soul itself, the soul of each one of us, is to each o...
Roberta: [in Art Class, the teacher is asking about their homework: create a piece of art that responds to something you have strong feelings about. She spots a wire sculpture made from two coathangers] Who is responsible for this? Margaret - Art Cla...
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be...
I love the word 'fashion.' That's why I'm using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or unimportant seems like a denial of history and frequen...
Every art requires the open person.
Every art requires the whole person.
To be a fool at the right time is an art.
Buying art is not understanding art.
When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.
