Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?