Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The artist is nothing without the gift but the gift is nothing without work.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Without freedom no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.

A picture is a poem without words.

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Without this spirit Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism I use architecture to reconcile the two.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.