“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone”

“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”

“Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.”

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”

“A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.”

“The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.”

“Changing what you want to get done takes a second. Recalibrating & getting the new thing to happen is a martial art.”

“The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul.”