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

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Every art and every inquiry and similarly every action and choice is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things a poet in words a musician by sounds.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.