If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
As I grew older I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York ' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
I think music is the greatest art form that exists and I think people listen to music for different reasons and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music and some of it is things that might affect a person's day if not their life or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Next to the Word of God the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten and the more a picture has to give the greater it is.