Quote of the Day
November 15, 2026
“I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.”
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
What is art? Nature concentrated.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
