Famous Quotes About power

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

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.