The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie WieselExcellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
AristotleLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerFriendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert EinsteinPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho MarxA painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Leonardo da VinciMotivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.
AristotleGod is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo PicassoNever trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert Lawrence