Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

art

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. 3 quotes from Edward Steichen

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. 16 thoughts from Erich Fromm

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. 16 views from Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. 16 wisdom & wit from Michelangelo

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 105 other sayings from Albert Einstein

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. 3 thoughts from Edward Steichen

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. 16 quotes from Michelangelo

All good art is an indiscretion. 17 wisdom & wit 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 views from Octavio Paz

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. 2 other views 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Michelangelo

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. 6 other sayings from William Morris

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. 5 quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art. 6 thoughts 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 views from Albert Einstein

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. 25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. 9 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. 2 more views from Norman McLaren

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. 6 other quotes from Robert Delaunay

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. 6 views from Duke Ellington

Art is never finished, only abandoned. 27 other quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. 38 sayings from William Hazlitt

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. 25 quotes 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 other sayings from Walter Winchell

In art as in love, instinct is enough. 20 quotes 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 quotes from Henry James

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. 25 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. 6 sayings 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 other 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 quotes from Charles Baudelaire

Painting is by nature a luminous language. 6 quotes from Robert Delaunay

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. 21 wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth

Rules and models destroy genius and art. 38 more thoughts from William Hazlitt

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. 8 other quotes from Karl Kraus

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. 38 sayings from William Hazlitt

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. 38 quotes from William Hazlitt

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. 11 other thoughts from Nicolas Chamfort

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. 6 other quotes from Emile Zola

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. 27 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Anatole France

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. 81 more 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 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov

Vision is the true creative rhythm. 6 quotes from Robert Delaunay

What is art? Prostitution. 25 views from Charles Baudelaire

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. 41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. 27 views from Leonardo da Vinci

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? 25 more quotes from Charles Baudelaire

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. 11 quotes from Salvador Dali

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. 53 views from Honore de Balzac

Pictures must not be too picturesque. 135 other quotes 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 quotes from Walt Whitman

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. 53 other sayings from Honore de Balzac

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. 10 thoughts from Novalis

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. 5 quotes from Martha Graham

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. 15 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. 22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. 35 other sayings from Rabindranath Tagore

What is art? Nature concentrated. 53 other thoughts from Honore de Balzac

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. 43 more quotes from Alexander Pope

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. 52 wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. 53 other quotes from Honore de Balzac

All nature is but art unknown to thee. 43 views from Alexander Pope

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. 52 other wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. 21 quotes 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 other quotes from Wilson Mizner

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. 11 other quotes from Salvador Dali

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. 45 other wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

Every artist was first an amateur. 135 other quotes 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 quotes from John F. Kennedy

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. 35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. 135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. 10 more sayings 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 thoughts from Robert Browning

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. 135 other quotes 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 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton

One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. 43 other quotes from Alexander Pope

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. 26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. 2 more quotes from Gwendolyn Brooks

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. 4 views from Paul Gauguin

Art is not a thing it is a way. 59 other wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. 57 wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. 58 sayings from Henry Ward Beecher

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. 11 other quotes from David Ogilvy

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. 5 other wisdom & wit from Igor Stravinsky

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. 14 sayings from Jean Anouilh

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. 10 more wisdom & wit 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 more views from John Ciardi

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. 14 quotes from Thomas Hardy

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. 26 more sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. 26 other wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. 6 more quotes from Jerzy Kosinski

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. 6 sayings from Jerzy Kosinski

Things are beautiful if you love them. 14 other quotes from Jean Anouilh

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. 2 other quotes from Robert Schumann

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 more quotes from Don Marquis

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. 8 wisdom & wit from Nathaniel Hawthorne

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. 115 other views from George Bernard Shaw

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. 7 other 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 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. 2 sayings from Alexander Calder

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. 115 quotes 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 sayings from Henry Moore

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. 12 other views from Casey Stengel

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. 19 sayings from Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. 19 other quotes from Marshall McLuhan

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. 24 sayings from Jean Cocteau

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. 24 sayings from Jean Cocteau

Art is anything you can get away with. 19 other quotes from Marshall McLuhan

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. 24 quotes from Jean Cocteau

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. 3 other quotes from Edgar Degas

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. 3 other thoughts from Edgar Degas

By the work one knows the workman. 15 views 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 thoughts from Jean Cocteau

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. 24 other views 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 views from Edward Hopper

Great art picks up where nature ends. 5 sayings 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 other quotes from Arthur Balfour

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. 2 quotes from Ernst Fischer

I paint with shapes. 2 views from Alexander Calder

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. 8 more quotes from Mary Baker Eddy

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. 6 other wisdom & wit 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 more sayings 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 more sayings 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 quotes from Henry Moore

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. 27 quotes from Dave Barry

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. 11 other quotes from William Osler

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. 18 quotes from Marcel Proust

A picture is worth a thousand words. 50 other wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. 5 quotes from William Bernbach

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. 3 quotes 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 quotes from Andy Warhol

Art is the objectification of feeling. 13 thoughts from Herman Melville

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. 3 wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts from Andy Warhol

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. 12 wisdom & wit from Malcolm Forbes

Education is the art of making man ethical. 9 other thoughts 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 more wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. 18 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 other wisdom & wit from Mae West

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. 18 other quotes from Andy Warhol

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. 5 sayings from Charles Horton Cooley

Patience is the art of hoping. 10 more wisdom & wit from Luc de Clapiers

The art of pleasing is the art of deception. 10 other views from Luc de Clapiers

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. 5 more quotes 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 more thoughts 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 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. 21 wisdom & wit 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 other sayings from Arthur Koestler

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. 26 more quotes from Theodor Adorno

The true art of memory is the art of attention. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. 21 views from Miguel de Cervantes

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. 4 quotes from Al Capp

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. 26 sayings from Theodor Adorno

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. 6 sayings from Malcolm De Chazal

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. 21 quotes 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 quotes from Theodor Adorno

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. 23 other quotes from T. S. Eliot

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. 60 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. 26 wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. 26 sayings from Theodor Adorno

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. 14 views from F. Scott Fitzgerald

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. 6 thoughts 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 quotes 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 more views from O. Henry

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. 2 wisdom & wit from Clara Schumann

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. 21 views from Laurence J. Peter

A painting that is well composed is half finished. 2 other quotes from Pierre Bonnard

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. 100 views from Oscar Wilde

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

All art is quite useless. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. 8 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Browne

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. 16 quotes from Paul Valery

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. 2 other wisdom & wit from Roy Lichtenstein

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. 29 wisdom & wit from Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. 29 more quotes from Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. 29 more quotes from Pablo Picasso

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. 100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde

Art is the proper task of life. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 29 other quotes from Pablo Picasso

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. 13 thoughts from Jean Rostand

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. 4 thoughts from Thomas Wolfe

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. 103 more views 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 more quotes from Roy Lichtenstein

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. 100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. 100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. 33 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. 100 other views 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 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. 4 more sayings from Franz Liszt

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. 29 sayings from Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. 16 more quotes from Paul Valery

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. 29 thoughts from Pablo Picasso

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. 29 views from Pablo Picasso

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. 103 sayings 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 other sayings from Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. 29 more quotes from Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. 29 other quotes 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 sayings from Pablo Picasso

We have art in order not to die of the truth. 103 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

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 more 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 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. 78 views from Voltaire

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. 21 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Andre Gide

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. 22 more wisdom & wit from Andre Gide

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. 10 more views from Billy Sunday

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. 10 wisdom & wit from Robert Mapplethorpe

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. 25 other quotes 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 quotes from Robert Mapplethorpe

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. 52 other quotes from Albert Camus

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. 14 more sayings from Hedy Lamarr

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. 3 views from George Edward Moore

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. 52 other quotes from Albert Camus

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. 2 other wisdom & wit from Eugene Ionesco

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. 57 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 more quotes from William Blake

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. 22 other quotes from Andre Gide

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. 3 quotes from Andre Malraux

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. 22 other quotes from Andre Gide

Art is the daughter of freedom. 29 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 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. 32 more sayings from William Blake

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. 57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. 10 quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. 25 wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Claude Monet

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. 4 more quotes 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 thoughts from Voltaire

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. 32 sayings from Martin Luther

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. 22 thoughts from Jimi Hendrix

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. 32 other sayings from Martin Luther

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. 46 more thoughts from George Santayana

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. 23 quotes from Henry Miller

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. 11 quotes from Rebecca West

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. 14 views from Joseph Conrad

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see. 3 thoughts from Paul Klee

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. 12 views from Frank Zappa

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. 30 more sayings from Gustave Flaubert

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. 30 thoughts from Gustave Flaubert

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. 7 thoughts 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 quotes from Edvard Munch

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. 3 other views from Maria Callas

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. 7 sayings from Henri Matisse

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. 23 more wisdom & wit from Walt Disney

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. 14 other wisdom & wit from Jim Morrison

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. 2 quotes from Walter Hagen

It's clever, but is it Art? 12 views 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 thoughts from Samuel Butler

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. 9 wisdom & wit from Rainer Maria Rilke

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. 30 views from Gustave Flaubert

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 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it. 30 wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. 46 other sayings from George Santayana

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. 2 thoughts 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 thoughts from George Santayana

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. 4 other wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Gustave Flaubert

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. 23 wisdom & wit from Henry Miller

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. 3 more thoughts from Paul Klee

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. 4 quotes from Morihei Ueshiba

Where thou art, that is home. 26 views 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 wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. 37 views from Edmund Burke

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. 30 wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. 5 other quotes 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 thoughts from Helen Rowland

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 sayings from William James

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. 36 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Stendhal

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. 67 views from Francis Bacon

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. 23 views from Paul Cezanne

The perfection of art is to conceal art. 12 sayings from Quintilian

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. 26 more quotes from E. M. Forster

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. 4 more quotes from Jackson Pollock

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. 4 sayings from Carl Rogers

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well. 19 quotes 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 quotes from E. M. Forster

There is nothing new in art except talent. 19 thoughts from Anton Chekhov

To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job. 12 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne

Wherever art appears, life disappears. 2 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. 23 other quotes 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 sayings from Steve Prefontaine

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. 23 more views from Paul Cezanne

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. 4 quotes from Federico Fellini

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. 23 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 other thoughts from Edith Wharton

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. 12 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Merton

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. 23 quotes from Paul Cezanne

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. 56 more sayings from Khalil Gibran

Art is an attempt to integrate evil. 12 more thoughts from Simone de Beauvoir

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. 2 other sayings 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 more quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. 10 thoughts from John Donne

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? 12 thoughts 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 more quotes from Dante Alighieri

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. 3 more thoughts from Robert Smithson

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. 23 wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. 5 sayings 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 views 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 more views from E. M. Forster

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. 23 other sayings from Paul Cezanne

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. 4 views from Jackson Pollock

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. 23 sayings 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 sayings from Khalil Gibran

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. 45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? 23 quotes 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 other quotes from Max Eastman

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. 14 sayings from Stendhal

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. 3 thoughts 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from Paul Cezanne

My painting does not come from the easel. 4 views from Jackson Pollock

Nature is the art of God. 13 views from Dante Alighieri

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' 21 quotes from W. H. Auden

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. 21 other thoughts from W. H. Auden

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. 31 quotes 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 thoughts from John Ruskin

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. 16 other quotes from Havelock Ellis

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. 19 views from Alfred North Whitehead

Art is born of humiliation. 21 other thoughts from W. H. Auden

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. 45 other wisdom & wit from John Ruskin

Art is not living. It is the use of living. 9 more wisdom & wit from Audre Lorde

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. 21 views 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 more views from Amy Lowell

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. 12 quotes 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 views from Victor Hugo

Every artist writes his own autobiography. 16 more quotes from Havelock Ellis

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. 26 thoughts 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 other quotes from Victor Hugo

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. 12 other thoughts 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 thoughts from John Ruskin

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. 4 thoughts from Arne Jacobsen

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. 11 views 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 quotes 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 thoughts 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 views from Stella Adler

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. 3 wisdom & wit from Boris Pasternak

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. 25 views from Simone Weil

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. 10 other views from Peter De Vries

My trade and art is to live. 32 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from John Ruskin

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. 13 other quotes from Ansel Adams

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. 13 quotes from Ansel Adams

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. 29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

Resolve and thou art free. 26 views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. 26 other views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. 47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. 13 other views 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 thoughts 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 other views from Simone Weil

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. 29 other views from Arthur Schopenhauer

You don't take a photograph, you make it. 13 wisdom & wit from Ansel Adams