"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
"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 art of knowing is knowing what to ignore."
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."
"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."
"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."
"Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."