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'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. |
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- Octavio Paz
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...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. |
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- Albert Einstein
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. |
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- Ludwig Erhard
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. |
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- George Bernard Shaw
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A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.' |
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- Alan Marshall Beck
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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future. |
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- Henry M. Wriston
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A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. |
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- George Santayana
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. |
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- Abraham Maslow
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A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. |
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- Niccolo Machiavelli
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. |
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- Dwight D Eisenhower
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