“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”

“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”

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

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”

“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”