Quotes of: Fine-arts Keyword

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.

The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

The Art of Fielding

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables

Captain Miller quotes Pablo Neruda to Ruby: 'As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

The Art of Arranging Flowers

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.

The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

The Art of Happiness

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

The ultimate test of a transformational leader is the ability to raise up a new generation of leaders.

The Art of Virtue-Based Transformational Leadership

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

The Art of the Novel

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The Art of Power

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

The Art of Power

Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.

The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

The Art Spirit

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

The Art Spirit

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

The Art of Public Speaking