Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
– Lou Dorfsman
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
– John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
– John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
– Alice Walker
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
– H. L. Mencken
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
– Matthew Trump
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
– American Proverb
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
– Will Rogers
Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
– Salvador Dali
Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.
– Sir Martin Archer Shee
Each body has its art...
– Gwendolyn Brooks
Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...
– Dean Gordon Brown
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
– Henry G. Stott
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
– Samuel C. Florman
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
– Ralph J. Smith
Eschew that friend, if thou art wise, who consorts with thy enemies.
– Sa?di
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.
– Clive Staples Lewis
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
– Romare Beardon
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
– don Miguel Ruiz
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
– Aristotle
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
– Robert W. Sarnoff
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
