art
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
6 other wisdom & wit from Robert Delaunay
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
21 other sayings from William Wordsworth
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
38 quotes 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 other quotes from William Hazlitt
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
41 more sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Nicolas Chamfort
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
6 wisdom & wit from Emile Zola
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
27 quotes 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 more thoughts from Anatole France
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
81 other 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 views from Vladimir Nabokov
Vision is the true creative rhythm.
6 other thoughts from Robert Delaunay
What is art? Prostitution.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
41 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 sayings from Charles Baudelaire
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
9 other wisdom & wit from Vladimir Nabokov
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
2 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 sayings 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 more thoughts 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 other thoughts from Charles Baudelaire
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
3 other thoughts 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 more thoughts from Henry James
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
25 sayings 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 quotes from William Hazlitt
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
6 views 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 more quotes from Charles Baudelaire
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 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 sayings from Karl Marx
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
26 thoughts from Harry S. Truman
Art is science made clear.
10 quotes from Wilson Mizner
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
52 other 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 more quotes from Salvador Dali
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
Every artist was first an amateur.
135 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
10 more views 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 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
135 thoughts 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 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
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 more thoughts from Honore de Balzac
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
43 more wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
30 more sayings 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 views 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 views 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 other views 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 other sayings from Alexander Pope
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
35 other views 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 quotes from Thomas Hardy
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
Space is the breath of art.
26 wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
58 other sayings from Henry Ward Beecher
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
26 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Jerzy Kosinski
Things are beautiful if you love them.
14 other sayings from Jean Anouilh
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
58 other 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
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
26 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
2 quotes 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 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 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
11 quotes 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 more views 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 quotes from John Ciardi
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
115 sayings 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 quotes from Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
19 more thoughts from Marshall McLuhan
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
24 thoughts from Jean Cocteau
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
24 views 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 other thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Edgar Degas
By the work one knows the workman.
15 other quotes 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 quotes from Jean Cocteau
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
24 other sayings 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 other sayings from Edward Hopper
Great art picks up where nature ends.
5 other quotes 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 quotes from Ernst Fischer
I paint with shapes.
2 quotes 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 views 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 other 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 quotes 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 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 more 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 views from Dave Barry
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
11 thoughts from William Osler
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
18 more quotes from Marcel Proust
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
3 more quotes from Edgar Degas
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
18 thoughts from Don Marquis
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
8 sayings from Nathaniel Hawthorne
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
115 other views 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 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 more 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 more quotes from Jean Cocteau
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
2 other quotes from Alexander Calder
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
115 sayings 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 quotes from Luc de Clapiers
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
10 other quotes from Luc de Clapiers
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
5 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 wisdom & wit from Herman Melville
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
10 quotes from Max Beerbohm
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture is worth a thousand words.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
5 other 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 other wisdom & wit from Charles Horton Cooley
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
18 other sayings from Andy Warhol
Art is the objectification of feeling.
13 quotes from Herman Melville
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
3 other sayings 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 quotes from Andy Warhol
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
12 quotes from Malcolm Forbes
Education is the art of making man ethical.
9 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Andy Warhol
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
18 other thoughts from Andy Warhol
Land really is the best art.
18 views from Andy Warhol
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
31 quotes from Mae West
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
18 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 quotes from Theodor Adorno
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
6 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Theodor Adorno
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
23 views from T. S. Eliot
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
60 more sayings from H. L. Mencken
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
26 other quotes from Theodor Adorno
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
26 more wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
14 thoughts from F. Scott Fitzgerald
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
6 views 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 more 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 wisdom & wit from O. Henry
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
2 sayings 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 quotes 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 sayings from Arthur Koestler
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
26 sayings from Theodor Adorno
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
63 views from Samuel Johnson
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
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 more thoughts from Groucho Marx
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
16 other quotes 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 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
29 other quotes from Pablo Picasso
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
103 quotes 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 other sayings from John Keats
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
29 sayings from Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
29 views from Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
29 more thoughts 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 quotes from Pablo Picasso
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
103 quotes 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 more 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 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
2 other views 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 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
All art is quite useless.
100 other views from Oscar Wilde
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
8 quotes 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 quotes from Roy Lichtenstein
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
29 more quotes from Pablo Picasso
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
29 quotes 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 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Art is the proper task of life.
103 other thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
29 sayings 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 more views from Thomas Wolfe
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
8 other quotes 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 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
100 more sayings 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 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
100 more quotes 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 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
4 more views from Franz Liszt
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
14 sayings 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 quotes from Albert Camus
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
2 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit from Andre Gide
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
32 views 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 wisdom & wit from Andre Gide
Art is the daughter of freedom.
29 views from Friedrich Schiller
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
29 sayings from Friedrich Schiller
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
32 more thoughts 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 more quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
25 views 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 other views from Claude Monet
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
4 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 more quotes from Voltaire
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
32 wisdom & wit 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 views 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 more thoughts 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 other sayings 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 quotes from Voltaire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
78 more quotes 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 views from Andre Gide
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
22 other quotes from Andre Gide
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
10 other thoughts from Billy Sunday
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
10 quotes from Robert Mapplethorpe
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
25 more quotes from Will Durant
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
19 more wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Albert Camus
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
74 more quotes from Winston Churchill
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
30 thoughts 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 views 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 other quotes from Gustave Flaubert
The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
30 sayings from Gustave Flaubert
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
46 sayings from George Santayana
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
2 wisdom & wit 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 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 quotes 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 other quotes 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 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
46 quotes from George Santayana
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
23 more views from Henry Miller
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
11 views from Rebecca West
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
14 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad
Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.
3 quotes 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 thoughts from Gustave Flaubert
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
7 quotes 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 thoughts 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 more views from Henri Matisse
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
23 quotes from Walt Disney
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
14 wisdom & wit from Jim Morrison
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
2 views from Walter Hagen
It's clever, but is it Art?
12 sayings from Rudyard Kipling
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
68 more sayings from Samuel Butler
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
9 views from Rainer Maria Rilke
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
23 more 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 other quotes from Steve Prefontaine
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
4 wisdom & wit from Federico Fellini
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
23 more 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 wisdom & wit from Edith Wharton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
12 views from Thomas Merton
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
23 more wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
56 more thoughts from Khalil Gibran
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
12 sayings from Simone de Beauvoir
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
2 quotes 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 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
10 more quotes from John Donne
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
12 more quotes 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 sayings from Dante Alighieri
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
3 more quotes from Robert Smithson
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
23 more quotes from Paul Cezanne
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
5 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Francis Bacon
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
23 other sayings from Helen Rowland
History develops, art stands still.
26 quotes from E. M. Forster
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
75 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Jackson Pollock
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
23 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
23 more sayings 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 more thoughts from Aristotle
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 other quotes from Constantin Stanislavski
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
5 thoughts 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 views 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 more sayings from Paul Cezanne
My painting does not come from the easel.
4 thoughts from Jackson Pollock
Nature is the art of God.
13 other quotes from Dante Alighieri
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
37 more thoughts from Edmund Burke
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
30 more sayings from Virginia Woolf
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
37 more wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
5 more 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 quotes from Helen Rowland
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
75 more wisdom & wit 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 views 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 more thoughts from Epicurus
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
36 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 quotes from Stendhal
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
67 other 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 quotes from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
26 other thoughts from E. M. Forster
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
4 other thoughts from Jackson Pollock
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
4 views from Carl Rogers
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
19 sayings 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 views from E. M. Forster
There is nothing new in art except talent.
19 sayings 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 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 thoughts from Paul Cezanne
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
13 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 more sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
Resolve and thou art free.
26 wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
26 other wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
13 quotes from Ansel Adams
To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
23 more 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 quotes 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 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
13 quotes from Ansel Adams
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
21 more 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 other thoughts from Gertrude Stein
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
45 other 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 more thoughts from John Ruskin
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
16 more views from Havelock Ellis
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Art is born of humiliation.
21 other quotes from W. H. Auden
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
45 more sayings from John Ruskin
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
9 more views from Audre Lorde
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
21 other sayings 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 quotes from Amy Lowell
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
12 other sayings 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 quotes from Havelock Ellis
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
45 more sayings from John Ruskin
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
26 wisdom & wit 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 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 quotes from John Ruskin
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 other quotes from Arne Jacobsen
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
11 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 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 other views 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 quotes from W. H. Auden
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
2 wisdom & wit from Stella Adler
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
3 quotes from Boris Pasternak
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
25 quotes from Simone Weil
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
10 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from John Ruskin
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
16 quotes from Michelangelo
All good art is an indiscretion.
17 more quotes from Tennessee Williams
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
2 thoughts 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 quotes from Octavio Paz
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
2 thoughts 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 views 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 thoughts 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 views 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 views 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 wisdom & wit from Vincent Van Gogh
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
3 other sayings 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 sayings 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 quotes from Albert Einstein
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
16 wisdom & wit 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 more views from Albert Einstein
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
3 wisdom & wit from Edward Steichen