Without Quotes

A picture is a poem without words.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

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

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

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

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.