It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
Painting the enemy as being as inhuman as possible is a great way to win a war.
Let go of your fears and look ahead with great hope.
'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.