Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
