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" 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. "
Walter Gropius
Work
Which
Structure
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" In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife. "
Carl Honore
Culture
Art
Food
" When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. "
Agnes Martin
Think
Eye
Mind
" The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. "
Joan Miro
Clinical
Soul
Must
" Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Art
Training
Animal
" I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. "
Keith Urban
People
Life
Think
" With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way. "
Walter Gropius
Young
Creative
Personal
" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "
Alexander Calder
Art
Artist
Enough
" I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art. "
Emmanuel Macron
Commerce
Life
Business
" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "
Robert Wilson
Egypt
Look
Ancient
" My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself. "
Joyce Carol Oates
Reputation
I Am
Revision
" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "
Francis Bacon
Art
Only
Realize
" The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. "
Henry Miller
Art
Waking
Mind
" What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. "
David Hockney
Know
Space
Art
" There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy. "
Novala Takemoto
Happy
Me
Beauty
" Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. "
Octavio Paz
Art
Call
Game
" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "
Theodor Adorno
Chaos
Art
Task
" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
William James
Knowing
Overlook
Wise
" He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. "
William Blake
Science
Art
Good
" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "
David Hockney
Design
Bus
Art
" The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. "
Ellen Key
Art
Education
Mistake
" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "
Jawaharlal Nehru
Minds
True
Mirror
" I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. "
Trevor Paglen
Art
Society
Relevant
" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "
Jackson Pollock
Painting
Own
Life
" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "
Leo Tolstoy
Art
Transmission
Feeling
" The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. "
Elbert Hubbard
Process
Marble
Beautiful
" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "
Kanye West
Art
Fix
Free
" What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. "
John Berger
Photography
Art
Light
" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "
Abraham Lincoln
Art
Always
Greatest
" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "
Claude Monet
Love
To Love
Everyone
" A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. "
Charles Dudley Warner
Artist
Great
Picture