Edward de Bono Quotes

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Art is a sense of magic.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art is science made clear.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

I believe in art.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

When we separate music from life we get art.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Life and art are inseparable.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.