Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference on this planet. That’s what art forms are about.

Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.

An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.

It is unquestionably true that the need for art is not created by economic conditions. But neither is the need for food created by economics. On the contrary, the need for food and warmth creates economics.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

Truth exists in art.