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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

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.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work, the pride that makes business an art.

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

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Art is the flower… life the green leaf.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.