To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…
I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Leadership management is the art of making problems enjoyable and interesting to deal with, by allowing the team to have the power and accountability to resolve them.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
