The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression whether they are paintings sculptures tragedies or musical compositions.

Man is unique not because he does science and his is unique not because he does art but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is intimacy spirituality color aspiration towards the infinite expressed by every means available to the arts.

Art has a double face of expression and illusion just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

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.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture not only in advanced technology allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college it can help reassure him that he does have that mind does have that soul.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building or architecture is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.

In the final analysis the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.