Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.