Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. Knut Hamsun
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. Edward Tufte
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. Austin O'Malley
The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to. Daniel Radcliffe
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. Camillo di Cavour
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. Jim Davis
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. John Donne
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. Tyra Banks
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. Hans Hofmann
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. Robert Redford
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. Laura Riding
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. Alvar Aalto