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

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" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "

" All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "

" I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing. "

" Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. "

Bruno Bettelheim

" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "

" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

" I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. "

Albert Einstein

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "

" The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. "

" What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. "

" Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books. "

Karen Salmansohn

" Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. "

" The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. "

" I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. "

" The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. "

" The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali. "

" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "

" A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. "

" I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. "

" I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling. "

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "

" Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. "

Jennifer Chiaverini

" The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. "

" To create a work of art is to create the world. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. "