Art

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."

"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?"