Quotes About Balance

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.