It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

I create stars.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.