Painting is by nature a luminous language. 6 more quotes from Robert Delaunay
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. 21 quotes from William Wordsworth
Rules and models destroy genius and art. 38 other thoughts from William Hazlitt
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. 8 quotes from Karl Kraus
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. 38 other wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. 41 wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. 38 more thoughts from William Hazlitt
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. 11 views from Nicolas Chamfort
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. 6 other sayings from Emile Zola
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. 27 sayings from Leonardo da Vinci
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. 20 quotes from Anatole France
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. 9 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Nabokov
Vision is the true creative rhythm. 6 more thoughts from Robert Delaunay
What is art? Prostitution. 25 other wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. 41 other views from Marcus Aurelius
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. 27 more quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? 25 views from Charles Baudelaire
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. 25 other wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. 9 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Nabokov
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. 2 thoughts from Norman McLaren
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. 6 wisdom & wit from Robert Delaunay
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. 6 quotes from Duke Ellington
Art is never finished, only abandoned. 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. 38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. 25 more wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. 25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. 3 thoughts from Walter Winchell
In art as in love, instinct is enough. 20 sayings from Anatole France
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. 10 views from Henry James
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. 25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. 38 more quotes from William Hazlitt
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. 6 quotes from Robert Delaunay
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. 25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. 25 other sayings from Charles Baudelaire
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. 43 views from Alexander Pope
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
All nature is but art unknown to thee. 43 more wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. 21 other thoughts from Karl Marx
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. 26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
Art is science made clear. 10 more sayings from Wilson Mizner
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. 52 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. 11 quotes from Salvador Dali
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. 45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell
Every artist was first an amateur. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. 46 sayings from John F. Kennedy
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. 53 wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. 35 more quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. 10 quotes from Wilson Mizner
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. 22 quotes from Robert Browning
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. 52 more wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. 43 other sayings from Alexander Pope
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. 11 more wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. 53 other views from Honore de Balzac
Pictures must not be too picturesque. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. 30 more thoughts from Walt Whitman
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. 53 other views from Honore de Balzac
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. 10 sayings from Novalis
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. 5 more quotes from Martha Graham
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. 15 more sayings from Orson Welles
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. 14 quotes from Golda Meir
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. 11 quotes from Salvador Dali
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. 22 thoughts from Robert Browning
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. 43 views from Alexander Pope
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. 35 more quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
What is art? Nature concentrated. 53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. 14 other sayings from Thomas Hardy
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
Space is the breath of art. 26 sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. 58 more thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. 26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. 6 wisdom & wit from Jerzy Kosinski
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. 6 quotes from Jerzy Kosinski
Things are beautiful if you love them. 14 quotes from Jean Anouilh
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. 58 views from Henry Ward Beecher
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. 2 more quotes from Robert Schumann
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. 26 more quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. 2 sayings from Gwendolyn Brooks
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. 4 other quotes from Paul Gauguin
Art is not a thing it is a way. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. 57 other views from Blaise Pascal
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. 58 views from Henry Ward Beecher
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. 11 more views from David Ogilvy
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. 5 sayings from Igor Stravinsky
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. 14 wisdom & wit from Jean Anouilh
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. 10 quotes from William Ralph Inge
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. 6 other quotes from John Ciardi
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. 2 quotes from Henry Moore
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. 12 more sayings from Casey Stengel
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. 19 views from Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. 19 more views from Marshall McLuhan
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. 24 other sayings from Jean Cocteau
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. 24 quotes from Jean Cocteau
Art is anything you can get away with. 19 wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. 24 wisdom & wit from Jean Cocteau
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. 3 sayings from Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. 3 quotes from Edgar Degas
By the work one knows the workman. 15 thoughts from Jean de La Fontaine
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. 24 sayings from Jean Cocteau
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. 24 more quotes from Jean Cocteau
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. 8 thoughts from Edward Hopper
Great art picks up where nature ends. 5 other thoughts from Marc Chagall
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. 3 quotes from Arthur Balfour
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. 2 sayings from Ernst Fischer
I paint with shapes. 2 thoughts from Alexander Calder
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. 8 thoughts from Mary Baker Eddy
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. 6 quotes from Lionel Trilling
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. 8 quotes from Edward Hopper
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. 8 other wisdom & wit from Edward Hopper
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. 5 other quotes from Marc Chagall
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. 2 views from Henry Moore
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. 27 other quotes from Dave Barry
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. 11 quotes from William Osler
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. 18 more thoughts from Marcel Proust
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. 3 quotes from Edgar Degas
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. 18 quotes from Don Marquis
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. 8 more thoughts from Nathaniel Hawthorne
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. 7 more quotes from Walter Benjamin
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. 31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. 8 quotes from Edward Hopper
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. 24 quotes from Jean Cocteau
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. 2 thoughts from Alexander Calder
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul. 115 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. 5 quotes from Charles Horton Cooley
Patience is the art of hoping. 10 more views from Luc de Clapiers
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. 10 quotes from Luc de Clapiers
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. 5 other sayings from Charles Bukowski
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. 13 other quotes from Herman Melville
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. 10 thoughts from Max Beerbohm
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. 50 other views from Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture is worth a thousand words. 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. 5 thoughts from William Bernbach
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. 3 other wisdom & wit from Walter Pater
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. 5 quotes from Charles Horton Cooley
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. 18 other wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol
Art is the objectification of feeling. 13 other views from Herman Melville
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. 3 other quotes from Theodore Dreiser
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. 18 other views from Andy Warhol
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. 12 more sayings from Malcolm Forbes
Education is the art of making man ethical. 9 other quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. 18 wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. 18 more quotes from Andy Warhol
Land really is the best art. 18 wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. 31 more wisdom & wit from Mae West
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. 18 more views from Andy Warhol
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. 4 other quotes from Al Capp
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. 26 more views from Theodor Adorno
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. 6 more quotes from Malcolm De Chazal
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. 21 sayings from Leo Tolstoy
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. 26 other thoughts from Theodor Adorno
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. 23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. 60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. 26 thoughts from Theodor Adorno
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. 26 other views from Theodor Adorno
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. 14 other quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. 6 other quotes from Freddie Mercury
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. 24 views from Henri Frederic Amiel
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! 6 views from O. Henry
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. 2 quotes from Clara Schumann
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. 21 quotes from Laurence J. Peter
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. 63 more thoughts from Samuel Johnson
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. 21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. 5 quotes from Cesare Pavese
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. 4 views from Arthur Koestler
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. 26 quotes from Theodor Adorno
The true art of memory is the art of attention. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. 21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 29 more sayings from Pablo Picasso
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. 29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. 16 more thoughts from Paul Valery
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. 103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. 29 more quotes from Pablo Picasso
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. 103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. 19 wisdom & wit from John Keats
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. 29 thoughts from Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. 29 sayings from Pablo Picasso
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. 29 more views from Pablo Picasso
We have art in order not to die of the truth. 103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? 6 sayings from Sarah Bernhardt
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
A painting that is well composed is half finished. 2 quotes from Pierre Bonnard
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. 100 more sayings from Oscar Wilde
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
All art is quite useless. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. 8 wisdom & wit from Thomas Browne
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. 16 other sayings from Paul Valery
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. 2 quotes from Roy Lichtenstein
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. 29 more sayings from Pablo Picasso
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. 29 other wisdom & wit from Pablo Picasso
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. 29 wisdom & wit from Pablo Picasso
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
Art is the proper task of life. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Art raises its head where creeds relax. 103 other views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. 13 views from Jean Rostand
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. 4 quotes from Thomas Wolfe
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
I cry out for order and find it only in art. 8 more views from Helen Hayes
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. 2 thoughts from Roy Lichtenstein
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. 100 other sayings from Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. 100 views from Oscar Wilde
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. 33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. 33 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. 4 more quotes from Franz Liszt
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. 14 quotes from Hedy Lamarr
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. 3 quotes from George Edward Moore
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. 52 more sayings from Albert Camus
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. 2 more sayings from Eugene Ionesco
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. 57 other quotes from Will Rogers
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. 22 quotes from Andre Gide
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. 32 quotes from William Blake
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. 22 quotes from Andre Gide
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. 3 more wisdom & wit from Andre Malraux
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. 22 wisdom & wit from Andre Gide
Art is the daughter of freedom. 29 more quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. 29 more thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. 32 quotes from William Blake
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. 57 other quotes from Will Rogers
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. 10 sayings from Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. 25 quotes from Will Durant
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. 5 quotes from Claude Monet
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. 4 thoughts from Auguste Rodin
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. 78 quotes from Voltaire
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. 32 other quotes from Martin Luther
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. 32 more thoughts from Martin Luther
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. 5 wisdom & wit from Claude Monet
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. 6 quotes from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. 78 quotes from Voltaire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. 78 quotes from Voltaire
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. 21 other quotes from Dale Carnegie
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. 10 quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. 22 wisdom & wit from Andre Gide
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. 22 more quotes from Andre Gide
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. 10 quotes from Billy Sunday
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. 10 other thoughts from Robert Mapplethorpe
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. 25 other sayings from Will Durant
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. 10 other quotes from Robert Mapplethorpe
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. 52 more quotes from Albert Camus
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. 74 views from Winston Churchill
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. 4 quotes from Paracelsus
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. 3 quotes from Pablo Casals
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. 30 more views from Gustave Flaubert
The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. 46 views from George Santayana
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. 2 sayings from Lester Bangs
The history of art is the history of revivals. 68 views from Samuel Butler
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. 46 sayings from George Santayana
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. 4 other sayings from Ellen Key
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. 30 wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. 23 quotes from Henry Miller
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. 3 other thoughts from Paul Klee
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. 4 sayings from Morihei Ueshiba
Where thou art, that is home. 26 sayings from Emily Dickinson
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. 30 thoughts from Gustave Flaubert
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. 46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. 23 other quotes from Henry Miller
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. 11 other quotes from Rebecca West
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. 14 thoughts from Joseph Conrad
Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see. 3 other thoughts from Paul Klee
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. 12 wisdom & wit from Frank Zappa
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. 30 more quotes from Gustave Flaubert
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. 30 more sayings from Gustave Flaubert
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. 7 wisdom & wit from Henri Matisse
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. 7 more quotes from Edvard Munch
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. 3 quotes from Maria Callas
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. 7 thoughts from Henri Matisse
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. 23 views from Walt Disney
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. 14 sayings from Jim Morrison
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. 2 sayings from Walter Hagen
It's clever, but is it Art? 12 thoughts from Rudyard Kipling
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. 68 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. 9 views from Rainer Maria Rilke
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. 23 wisdom & wit from Helen Rowland
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. 3 other views from Steve Prefontaine
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. 23 other sayings from Paul Cezanne
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. 4 thoughts from Federico Fellini
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. 23 other quotes from Paul Cezanne
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. 6 sayings from Edith Wharton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. 12 quotes from Thomas Merton
Art is a harmony parallel with nature. 23 more quotes from Paul Cezanne
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. 56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. 12 other quotes from Simone de Beauvoir
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. 2 views from Robert Motherwell
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. 24 other quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. 10 sayings from John Donne
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? 12 wisdom & wit from Ludwig van Beethoven
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. 13 other quotes from Dante Alighieri
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. 3 thoughts from Robert Smithson
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. 23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. 5 quotes from Isaac Newton
Every good painter paints what he is. 4 other quotes from Jackson Pollock
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. 29 other thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. 67 sayings from Francis Bacon
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. 23 quotes from Helen Rowland
History develops, art stands still. 26 other quotes from E. M. Forster
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. 75 other thoughts from Aristotle
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. 23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. 4 thoughts from Jackson Pollock
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. 23 more thoughts from Paul Cezanne
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. 56 thoughts from Khalil Gibran
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. 45 more thoughts from Thomas Fuller
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? 23 views from Paul Cezanne
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. 7 wisdom & wit from Max Eastman
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. 75 other quotes from Aristotle
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. 14 more quotes from Stendhal
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. 3 quotes from Constantin Stanislavski
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. 5 quotes from Oliver Herford
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. 9 sayings from Walter Savage Landor
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. 23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
My painting does not come from the easel. 4 thoughts from Jackson Pollock
Nature is the art of God. 13 more sayings from Dante Alighieri
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. 37 other quotes from Edmund Burke
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. 30 thoughts from Virginia Woolf
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. 37 more quotes from Edmund Burke
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. 5 wisdom & wit from Isaac Newton
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. 23 views from Helen Rowland
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. 75 more quotes from Aristotle
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. 96 views from Benjamin Franklin
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. 40 quotes from William James
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. 11 views from Epicurus
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. 36 other quotes from Lord Byron
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. 14 other wisdom & wit from Stendhal
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. 67 other quotes from Francis Bacon
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. 23 more wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne
The perfection of art is to conceal art. 12 quotes from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. 26 quotes from E. M. Forster
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. 4 wisdom & wit from Jackson Pollock
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. 4 quotes from Carl Rogers
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well. 19 other thoughts from Anton Chekhov
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. 26 wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster
There is nothing new in art except talent. 19 views from Anton Chekhov
To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job. 12 sayings from Simone de Beauvoir
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. 26 other views from E. M. Forster
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. 23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
Wherever art appears, life disappears. 2 more views from Robert Motherwell
You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. 23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. 13 views from Ansel Adams
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. 29 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
Resolve and thou art free. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. 26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. 47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. 13 more thoughts from Ansel Adams
To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. 12 sayings from George Jean Nathan
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. 25 quotes from Simone Weil
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. 29 more quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
You don't take a photograph, you make it. 13 other wisdom & wit from Ansel Adams
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' 21 views from W. H. Auden
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. 21 quotes from W. H. Auden
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. 31 more thoughts from Gertrude Stein
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. 45 quotes from John Ruskin
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. 45 other sayings from John Ruskin
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. 16 other sayings from Havelock Ellis
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. 19 other thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead
Art is born of humiliation. 21 quotes from W. H. Auden
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. 45 more views from John Ruskin
Art is not living. It is the use of living. 9 other sayings from Audre Lorde
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. 21 quotes from W. H. Auden
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. 5 sayings from Amy Lowell
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. 12 thoughts from George Jean Nathan
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Every artist writes his own autobiography. 16 more sayings from Havelock Ellis
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. 45 thoughts from John Ruskin
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. 26 more quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. 12 other quotes from George Jean Nathan
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. 45 more wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. 4 views from Arne Jacobsen
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. 11 other quotes from James Joyce
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 21 more views from W. H. Auden
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. 45 more sayings from John Ruskin
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 21 wisdom & wit from W. H. Auden
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. 2 other quotes from Stella Adler
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. 3 thoughts from Boris Pasternak
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. 25 thoughts from Simone Weil
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. 10 sayings from Peter De Vries
My trade and art is to live. 32 other views from Michel de Montaigne
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. 45 more quotes from John Ruskin
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. 13 quotes from Ansel Adams
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. 16 sayings from Michelangelo
All good art is an indiscretion. 17 more quotes from Tennessee Williams
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. 2 views from Hans Hofmann
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. 5 more quotes from Octavio Paz
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. 2 sayings from Alfred de Vigny
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. 8 other sayings from Malcolm Muggeridge
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. 3 quotes from Edward Steichen
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. 6 wisdom & wit from William Morris
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. 16 quotes from Michelangelo
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. 6 other thoughts from William Morris
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. 5 other sayings from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art. 6 wisdom & wit from William Morris
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. 23 other quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 105 more sayings from Albert Einstein
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. 3 more sayings from Edward Steichen
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. 50 thoughts from Robert Frost
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. 16 more quotes from Erich Fromm
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. 105 other views from Albert Einstein
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. 16 sayings from Michelangelo
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. 16 quotes from Michelangelo
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. 3 more quotes from Edward Steichen