To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man beyond history and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy like the joys afforded by art or life.

There is nothing Sir too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

It is no great art to say something briefly when like Tacitus one has something to say when one has nothing to say however and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds the book of their words and the book of their art.

Every happening great and small is a parable whereby God speaks to us and the art of life is to get the message.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A great city whose image dwells in the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world Art.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists and I think people listen to music for different reasons and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music and some of it is things that might affect a person's day if not their life or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

If thou art a man admire those who attempt great things even though they fail.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature body and soul and chiefly of the soul.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.