| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Sun Tzu | The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.  | 76 |
| Groucho Marx | Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. | 101 |
| Karl Popper | Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. | 101 |
| Michel Foucault | What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. | 101 |
| Pablo Picasso | The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. | 101 |
| Ansel Adams | Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. | 101 |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. | 101 |
| Jonathan Swift | Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. | 101 |
| Michelangelo | The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. | 101 |
| Rene Magritte | Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. | 101 |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. | 101 |
| Alvar Aalto | Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. | 101 |
| Andrew Wyeth | One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. | 101 |
| Beck | Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. | 101 |
| Bernie Siegel | Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. | 101 |
| Bjarke Ingels | In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. | 101 |
| Carly Fiorina | You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut. | 101 |
| Claude Monet | Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. | 101 |
| Conrad Hall | I realize that every picture isn't a work of art. | 101 |
| Constantin Brancusi | There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. | 101 |
| Constantin Stanislavski | Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. | 101 |
| Dan Brown | Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see. | 101 |
| Don Marquis | Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. | 101 |
| Dorothea Lange | Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. | 101 |
| Edgar Degas | Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. | 101 |
| Edward Hopper | 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. | 101 |
| Elliott Erwitt | To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. | 101 |
| Eric Whitacre | I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony. | 101 |
| Erykah Badu | I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. | 101 |
| Ezra Pound | If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. | 101 |
| Friedrich Durrenmatt | So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. | 101 |
| Gavin Newsom | As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. | 101 |
| Grant Achatz | Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art. | 101 |
| Hans Hofmann | Through a painting we can see the whole world. | 101 |
| Harvey Pekar | I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. | 101 |
| Helen Mirren | It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. | 101 |
| Henri Poincare | Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. | 101 |
| Henry Louis Gates | Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. | 101 |
| Herbert Read | The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. | 101 |
| Jackson Pollock | The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. | 101 |
| Jean Cocteau | Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. | 101 |
| Jeff Buckley | I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship. | 101 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. | 101 |
| John Lasseter | The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. | 101 |
| John Updike | What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. | 101 |
| Kara Walker | There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists. | 101 |
| Karen DeCrow | No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. | 101 |
| Louis Sullivan | Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant. | 101 |
| Mos Def | Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. | 101 |
| Nawal El Saadawi | To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction. | 101 |
| Nick Clegg | My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that. | 101 |
| Octavia Butler | Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. | 101 |
| Octavia Spencer | You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. | 101 |
| Ori Gersht | I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions. | 101 |
| Oswald Mosley | There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age. | 101 |
| Paracelsus | The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. | 101 |
| Paul Gauguin | Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? | 101 |
| Paul Hawken | Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. | 101 |
| Paul Rand | Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. | 101 |
| Philip Johnson | Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. | 101 |
| Quintilian | The perfection of art is to conceal art. | 101 |
| Robert Delaunay | Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. | 101 |
| Robert Mapplethorpe | To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. | 101 |
| Robert Mondavi | We want to raise the art of living well. | 101 |
| Robert Rauschenberg | You begin with the possibilities of the material. | 101 |
| Roy Lichtenstein | I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it. | 101 |
| Russell Crowe | While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore. | 101 |
| Russell Simmons | Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. | 101 |
| Scott Adams | Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. | 101 |
| Sherman Alexie | All I owe the world is my art. | 101 |
| Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. | 101 |
| Thornton Wilder | I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. | 101 |
| Tony Hawk | I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. | 101 |
| Truman Capote | Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. | 101 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. | 101 |
| Walter Savage Landor | Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. | 101 |
| Will Durant | To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. | 101 |
| William John Wills | You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy. | 101 |
| Yayoi Kusama | With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' | 101 |
| Albrecht Durer | If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. | 101 |
| Arthur Erickson | Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. | 101 |
| Ashley Madekwe | Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art. | 101 |
| Auguste Rodin | I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. | 101 |
| Ayelet Waldman | A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. | 101 |
| Barbara Hepworth | At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution. | 101 |
| Beatrice Wood | And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. | 101 |
| Brad Holland | Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. | 101 |
| Carroll O'Connor | Even a true artist does not always produce art. | 101 |
| Charles Horton Cooley | An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. | 101 |
| Charles Ives | There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. | 101 |
| Claude Bernard | Art is I; science is we. | 101 |
| Dasha Zhukova | Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. | 101 |
| Donald Judd | Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. | 101 |
| Edward Steichen | When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. | 101 |
| Elizabeth McGovern | I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. | 101 |
| Eugene Delacroix | The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. | 101 |
| Friedensreich Hundertwasser | Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. | 101 |
| Georg Cantor | In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. | 101 |
| Jasper Johns | There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. | 101 |
| Jean Rostand | Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. | 101 |
| Jerry Saltz | Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. | 101 |
| John Cotton Dana | A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. | 101 |
| John W. Gardner | Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. | 101 |
| Laurie Anderson | Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. | 101 |
| Leonard Lauder | I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me. | 101 |
| Lester Bangs | The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. | 101 |
| Michael Palin | I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. | 101 |
| Norman McLaren | Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. | 101 |
| Peter Max | If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer. | 101 |
| Phil Ochs | Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. | 101 |
| Philip Guston | To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. | 101 |
| Rhys Ifans | I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. | 101 |
| Shepard Fairey | The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. | 101 |
| Thom Mayne | The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. | 101 |
| William Morris Hunt | The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. | 101 |
| Adolf Loos | The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. | 101 |
| Aidan Gillen | There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' There's definitely an influence on 'Game of Thrones' from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies. | 101 |
| Arthur Wellesley | The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. | 101 |
| Barnett Newman | Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. | 101 |
| Diane Paulus | Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. | 101 |
| Eric Carle | That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. | 101 |
| Franz Werfel | Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. | 101 |
| Gary Wright | Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity. | 101 |
| Giorgio de Chirico | To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. | 101 |
| Gregory Bateson | Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. | 101 |
| Henry Ossawa Tanner | I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. | 101 |
| John Singer Sargent | You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. | 101 |
| Judy Chicago | I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. | 101 |
| Kenneth Lonergan | Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. | 101 |
| Kevin Brownlow | Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational. | 101 |
| Lionel Trilling | Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. | 101 |
| M. Night Shyamalan | Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. | 101 |
| Maria Callas | I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. | 101 |
| Martin Kippenberger | Entertainment is in art like color in pictures. | 101 |
| Martin McDonagh | There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. | 101 |
| Maurice Ravel | We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. | 101 |
| Peter Hammill | Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. | 101 |
| Rajneesh | Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing. | 101 |
| Robert Smithson | Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. | 101 |
| Said Nursi | The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. | 101 |
| Sandy Koufax | Pitching is the art of instilling fear. | 101 |
| Sol LeWitt | Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. | 101 |
| Thom Gunn | As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. | 101 |
| Thomas Berger | The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. | 101 |
| Alfred Eisenstaedt | It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. | 101 |
| Anthony Anderson | If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team. | 101 |
| David Elliott | We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. | 101 |
| Edgard Varese | Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. | 101 |
| Edward Dmytryk | In art, the obvious is a sin. | 101 |
| George Edward Moore | A great artist is always before his time or behind it. | 101 |
| Gustave Courbet | Fine art is knowledge made visible. | 101 |
| Hugh Newell Jacobsen | It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. | 101 |
| James Whistler | An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. | 101 |
| John Wesley Powell | The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. | 101 |
| Josef Albers | In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. | 101 |
| Julia Glass | A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. | 101 |
| Mark Bradford | I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions. | 101 |
| Marvin Gaye | Great artists suffer for the people. | 101 |
| Paddy Chayefsky | Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. | 101 |
| Ralph Bakshi | Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. | 101 |
| Robert Indiana | I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. | 101 |
| Robert Motherwell | Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. | 101 |
| Stan Getz | As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. | 101 |
| Balthus | I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. | 101 |
| Brian Chesky | When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people. | 101 |
| Clive Bell | We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. | 101 |
| Ernst Fischer | In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. | 101 |
| Giotto di Bondone | Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. | 101 |
| Joan Miro | The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. | 101 |
| Julia Morgan | Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. | 101 |
| Kenny Scharf | Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something, that might change your day - it might inspire you. | 101 |
| Laurance Rockefeller | I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself. | 101 |
| Louis Dudek | The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. | 101 |
| Mark Van Doren | The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. | 101 |
| Michael Connelly | I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. | 101 |
| Paul Strand | The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. | 101 |
| Amy Lowell | Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. | 101 |
| Evelyn de Morgan | Art is eternal, but life is short. | 101 |
| Jef I. Richards | Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' | 101 |
| Ludwig Erhard | A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. | 101 |
| Max Beckmann | Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. | 101 |
| Modest Mussorgsky | Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. | 101 |
| Rebecca Miller | I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach. | 101 |
| Thomas Guthrie | As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. | 101 |
| Ad Reinhardt | Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. | 101 |
| Alex North | Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. | 101 |
| Charles Rosen | A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. | 101 |
| Margaret Keane | I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it. | 101 |
| Raoul Dufy | What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. | 101 |
| Ronald Graham | Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. | 101 |
| Sean Patrick Thomas | I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! | 101 |
| Steven Erikson | All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists. | 101 |
| Alexander Calder | I paint with shapes. | 101 |
| Jack Bowman | A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. | 101 |
| Alice Walton | I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities. | 101 |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. | 101 |
| Max Bill | Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. | 101 |
| Angelus Silesius | By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. | 101 |
| Maria Sibylla Merian | Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. | 101 |
| Jim Dine | My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. | 101 |
| James Huneker | Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. | 101 |
| James P. Cannon | The art of politics is knowing what to do next. | 101 |
| John Chamberlain | Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. | 101 |
| Salvador Dali | Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. | 102 |
| Ansel Adams | Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. | 102 |
| Theodor Adorno | Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. | 102 |
| Agnes Martin | Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. | 102 |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. | 102 |
| Andy Goldsworthy | My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. | 102 |
| Antoni Gaudi | Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. | 102 |
| Banksy | Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. | 102 |
| Claude Monet | People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. | 102 |
| Donald Knuth | Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. | 102 |
| Duke Ellington | Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. | 102 |
| Edgar Degas | Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. | 102 |
| Edward Young | The course of Nature is the art of God. | 102 |
| Eli Broad | Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. | 102 |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox | You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. | 102 |
| Ellen Key | The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. | 102 |
| Frank Stella | I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life. | 102 |
| Frederic Chopin | Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. | 102 |
| Georges Braque | Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. | 102 |
| Hans Hofmann | Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. | 102 |
| Henry Moore | A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. | 102 |
| Ingmar Bergman | Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. | 102 |
| K. D. Lang | Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go. | 102 |
| Louis Kahn | Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. | 102 |
| Luc de Clapiers | Patience is the art of hoping. | 102 |
| Lucian Freud | I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. | 102 |
| Malcolm Muggeridge | Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. | 102 |
| Marcel Duchamp | I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. | 102 |
| Nick Cannon | One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age. | 102 |
| Oscar Niemeyer | I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. | 102 |
| Paul Klee | A line is a dot that went for a walk. | 102 |
| Philip Johnson | Architecture is the art of how to waste space. | 102 |
| Robert Schumann | To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. | 102 |
| Roy Lichtenstein | I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. | 102 |
| Valentino Rossi | Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside. | 102 |
| Wassily Kandinsky | There is no must in art because art is free. | 102 |
| William Dunbar | London, thou art the flower of cities all! | 102 |
| Wilson Mizner | It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. | 102 |
| Wynton Marsalis | Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. | 102 |
| Alan Moore | For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat. | 102 |
| Alfred de Vigny | Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? | 102 |
| Apolo Ohno | It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. | 102 |
| Barbara Hepworth | I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. | 102 |
| Boris Pasternak | Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. | 102 |
| Brandon Boyd | Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about. | 102 |
| Carrie Mae Weems | I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium. | 102 |
| Charles Horton Cooley | Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. | 102 |
| Charlie Parker | They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. | 102 |
| Craig Brown | My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. | 102 |
| David Rakoff | A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art. | 102 |
| Duane Michals | The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art. | 102 |
| Dylan Lauren | When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends. | 102 |
| Edward Steichen | Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. | 102 |
| Frank Wedekind | Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. | 102 |
| George A. Moore | Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. | 102 |
| Grandma Moses | If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. | 102 |
| Hendrik Willem Van Loon | The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. | 102 |
| Horatio Alger | Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. | 102 |
| J. G. Ballard | The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. | 102 |
| James Cash Penney | The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. | 102 |
| Jeanne Moreau | When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. | 102 |
| Jenny Holzer | I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand. | 102 |
| Lester Bangs | Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. | 102 |
| Marc Chagall | Great art picks up where nature ends. | 102 |
| Martin Amis | Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. | 102 |
| Michael Korda | Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. | 102 |
| Peter Max | I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. | 102 |
| Phil Spector | I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still. | 102 |
| Philip Treacy | I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information. | 102 |
| Robert Wilson | By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. | 102 |
| Sasha Grey | My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money. | 102 |
| Theodore Dreiser | Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. | 102 |
| Wendell Pierce | And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on. | 102 |
| Willem de Kooning | An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. | 102 |
| Darren Criss | As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. | 102 |
| David Cronenberg | I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. | 102 |
| Eugenio Montale | In reality art is always for everyone and for no one. | 102 |
| Helen Frankenthaler | There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. | 102 |
| Henry Ossawa Tanner | I will preach with my brush. | 102 |
| Jason Reitman | Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment. | 102 |
| John Ciardi | Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. | 102 |
| John Mellencamp | I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. | 102 |
| Mary Cassatt | I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it. | 102 |
| Pierre Bonnard | Art will never be able to exist without nature. | 102 |
| Robert Smithson | A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. | 102 |
| Sol LeWitt | A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. | 102 |
| Sonu Nigam | For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. | 102 |
| Alfred Eisenstaedt | When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. | 102 |
| Cy Twombly | I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art. | 102 |
| John Zorn | I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. | 102 |
| Josef Albers | It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see. | 102 |
| Luis von Ahn | Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art. | 102 |
| Mike Davidson | You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise. | 102 |
| Robert Indiana | I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. | 102 |
| Robert Motherwell | Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. | 102 |
| Thomas Sydenham | The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. | 102 |
| Clive Bell | Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. | 102 |
| Delia Smith | There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game. | 102 |
| Ernst Fischer | I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. | 102 |
| Giuseppe Verdi | I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. | 102 |
| Matteo Renzi | There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world. | 102 |
| Robert Musil | Layer by layer art strips life bare. | 102 |
| Stefan Zweig | Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. | 102 |
| Thomas Shadwell | Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. | 102 |
| Devdutt Pattanaik | Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them? | 102 |
| Joshua Reynolds | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. | 102 |
| Mickey Hart | Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. | 102 |
| Samuel Daniel | Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. | 102 |
| Ad Reinhardt | Art is too serious to be taken seriously. | 102 |
| Camillo di Cavour | I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. | 102 |
| Dan Flavin | One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find. | 102 |
| Raoul Dufy | My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly. | 102 |
| Alexander Calder | Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. | 102 |
| Doris Humphrey | The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. | 102 |
| John Ford | Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes. | 102 |
| Alfred Sisley | Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. | 102 |
| Jacky Ickx | And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. | 102 |
| Jim Hodges | When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. | 102 |
| John Cheever | Art is the triumph over chaos. | 102 |
| John Desmond Bernal | The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. | 102 |
| James Henry Breasted | By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. | 102 |
| Jennifer Chiaverini | Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. | 102 |
| John Tillotson | The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. | 102 |
| John Chamberlain | Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it. | 102 |
| Henry David Thoreau | This world is but a canvas to our imagination. | 103 |
| Andy Warhol | An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. | 103 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. | 103 |
| John Wooden | Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. | 103 |
| Vincent Van Gogh | If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. | 103 |
| Woody Allen | Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. | 103 |
| Jackie Kennedy | I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. | 103 |
| Agnes Martin | My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. | 103 |
| Banksy | There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it. | 103 |
| Bryant H. McGill | Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. | 103 |
| CeeLo Green | Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art. | 103 |
| Charles de Lint | The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. | 103 |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand | The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. | 103 |
| Claude Debussy | Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. | 103 |
| Claude Monet | Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. | 103 |
| David Blaine | Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. | 103 |
| David Frost | Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way. | 103 |
| Diogenes | The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. | 103 |
| Douglas Horton | The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. | 103 |
| Eddie Vedder | It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. | 103 |
| Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. | 103 |
| Edward Hopper | The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. | 103 |
| Egon Schiele | I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures? | 103 |
| Frank Stella | No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. | 103 |
| Friedrich Durrenmatt | The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. | 103 |
| George Jean Nathan | Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. | 103 |
| Georges Braque | There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. | 103 |
| Gustav Klimt | All art is erotic. | 103 |
| Henri Matisse | I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. | 103 |
| Herbert Read | Art is pattern informed by sensibility. | 103 |
| Herbie Hancock | Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. | 103 |
| Herman Melville | Art is the objectification of feeling. | 103 |
| Indra Devi | Yoga is an art and science of living. | 103 |
| James Franco | The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean. | 103 |
| Joseph Conrad | History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. | 103 |
| Luc de Clapiers | The art of pleasing is the art of deception. | 103 |
| Malcolm Forbes | Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. | 103 |
| Marcel Duchamp | I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. | 103 |
| Marilyn French | Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. | 103 |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. | 103 |
| Muhammad Iqbal | Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. | 103 |
| Norman Foster | There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. | 103 |
| Norman Rockwell | Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn. | 103 |
| Paul Klee | Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. | 103 |
| Richard Louv | As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love. | 103 |
| Robert Mapplethorpe | The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. | 103 |
| Robert Rauschenberg | An empty canvas is full. | 103 |
| Robert Schumann | Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. | 103 |
| Roy Lichtenstein | Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. | 103 |
| Saint Ambrose | Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection. | 103 |
| Twyla Tharp | Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. | 103 |
| Val Kilmer | It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. | 103 |
| William Morris | I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. | 103 |
| Yaya Han | Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.' | 103 |
| Yayoi Kusama | I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. | 103 |
| Albrecht Durer | As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. | 103 |
| Andre Malraux | An art book is a museum without walls. | 103 |
| Colleen Atwood | Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. | 103 |
| Cyril Connolly | The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. | 103 |
| Elizabeth Berkley | I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. | 103 |
| Emmet Fox | The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. | 103 |
| Franz Marc | Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. | 103 |
| Kiki Smith | Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. | 103 |
| Patrick Stump | When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun. | 103 |
| Philip James Bailey | Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. | 103 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. | 103 |
| Willem de Kooning | Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. | 103 |
| Akhenaton | Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. | 103 |
| Bruno Tonioli | I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. | 103 |
| Georges Bizet | What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. | 103 |
| Jeanette Winterson | Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. | 103 |
| Lionel Trilling | What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. | 103 |
| Max Eastman | 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. | 103 |
| Steve Lacy | I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. | 103 |
| William Samuel Johnson | To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. | 103 |
| David Chase | Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.' | 103 |
| Enid Bagnold | The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. | 103 |
| Gustave Courbet | I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. | 103 |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon | Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. | 103 |
| Robert Indiana | I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old. | 103 |
| Robert Motherwell | It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. | 103 |
| Thomas Hood | Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! | 103 |
| Balthus | One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. | 103 |
| Clive Bell | A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. | 103 |
| Jerzy Kosinski | The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. | 103 |
| Louis Dudek | Art is anything people do with distinction. | 103 |
| Mary Schmich | Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. | 103 |
| Sonny Perdue | Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself. | 103 |
| Alex Grey | I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this. | 103 |
| Malcolm de Chazal | Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. | 103 |
| Jeff Ross | When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals. | 103 |
| Robert Quillen | Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. | 103 |
| James Montgomery | Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? | 103 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. | 104 |
| Andy Warhol | I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. | 104 |
| Frank Ocean | In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. | 104 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. | 104 |
| Alexander Pope | All nature is but art unknown to thee. | 104 |
| Ansel Adams | You don't take a photograph, you make it. | 104 |
| Julia Child | In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. | 104 |
| Albert Ellis | The art of love is largely the art of persistence. | 104 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. | 104 |
| Catherine Deneuve | Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. | 104 |
| Eduardo Galeano | I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling. | 104 |
| Edward Hopper | What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. | 104 |
| Egon Schiele | Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. | 104 |
| Ellen Key | When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. | 104 |
| Eugene Ionesco | A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. | 104 |
| Franz Liszt | Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. | 104 |
| Georges Braque | Art is made to disturb, science reassures. | 104 |
| Gustav Klimt | Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art. | 104 |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson | To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. | 104 |
| Henri Matisse | Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. | 104 |
| Howard Carter | We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. | 104 |
| Isadora Duncan | Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. | 104 |
| Jean Cocteau | An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. | 104 |
| Jon Bon Jovi | Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. | 104 |
| Keith Haring | The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses. | 104 |
| Leo Burnett | If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks. | 104 |
| Lewis Mumford | The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. | 104 |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. | 104 |
| Patti Smith | In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. | 104 |
| Paul Cezanne | You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. | 104 |
| Robert Delaunay | Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. | 104 |
| Robert Rauschenberg | The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. | 104 |
| Sia Furler | I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic. | 104 |
| Stella Adler | Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. | 104 |
| Tadao Ando | My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. | 104 |
| Walter Hagen | It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. | 104 |
| Wassily Kandinsky | An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. | 104 |
| Christo | The work of art is a scream of freedom. | 104 |
| Corita Kent | That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. | 104 |
| Gian Carlo Menotti | Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. | 104 |
| Jasper Johns | I am not strong on perfection. | 104 |
| Jerry Saltz | It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. | 104 |
| Katarina Witt | Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. | 104 |
| Madeleine L'Engle | When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. | 104 |
| Marc Chagall | 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. | 104 |
| Michael Leunig | There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. | 104 |
| Paula Abdul | Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. | 104 |
| Philip Guston | Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. | 104 |
| Raf Simons | Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about. | 104 |
| Theodore Bikel | No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. | 104 |
| Adolf Loos | The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. | 104 |
| Amy Lee | Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people. | 104 |
| M. C. Escher | Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? | 104 |
| Marianne Moore | Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. | 104 |
| Sol LeWitt | When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. | 104 |
| Stone Gossard | My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue. | 104 |
| Al Capp | Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. | 104 |
| John Millington Synge | Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. | 104 |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else. | 104 |
| Robert Motherwell | Wherever art appears, life disappears. | 104 |
| Balthus | Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. | 104 |
| Alexander Calder | To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. | 104 |
| Andy Warhol | If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. | 105 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. | 105 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. | 105 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. | 105 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. | 105 |
| Martin Luther | Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. | 105 |
| Paulo Coelho | I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. | 105 |
| Ansel Adams | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. | 105 |
| Lady Gaga | Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world. | 105 |
| Agnes Martin | The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. | 105 |
| Alvar Aalto | Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. | 105 |
| Andrea Bocelli | I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. | 105 |
| Ben Jonson | They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. | 105 |
| CeeLo Green | Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. | 105 |
| Cesare Pavese | The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. | 105 |
| Chuck Close | Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. | 105 |
| Claude Debussy | Art is the most beautiful of all lies. | 105 |
| David Rockefeller | I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally. | 105 |
| E. M. Forster | Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. | 105 |
| Francoise Sagan | Art must take reality by surprise. | 105 |
| Franz Schubert | One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? | 105 |
| George Henry Lewes | Insight is the first condition of Art. | 105 |
| George Herbert Mead | To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. | 105 |
| Georges Braque | Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. | 105 |
| Gustave Flaubert | Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. | 105 |
| Guy Kawasaki | Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. | 105 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. | 105 |
| Hans Hofmann | A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. | 105 |
| Hedy Lamarr | A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. | 105 |
| Herman Hesse | Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. | 105 |
| Laurence J. Peter | Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. | 105 |
| Le Corbusier | I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. | 105 |
| Lewis Mumford | Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. | 105 |
| Madonna Ciccone | I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. | 105 |
| Maynard James Keenan | Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. | 105 |
| Norman Rockwell | Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life. | 105 |
| Pablo Casals | The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. | 105 |
| Paul Cezanne | A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. | 105 |
| Paul Simon | I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. | 105 |
| Richard Avedon | I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. | 105 |
| Roy Lichtenstein | I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. | 105 |
| Sri Chinmoy | If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world. | 105 |
| Thomas Wolfe | Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. | 105 |
| Twyla Tharp | Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. | 105 |
| Unknown | A picture is worth a thousand words. | 105 |
| William Morris | So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. | 105 |
| Alfred de Vigny | Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. | 105 |
| Andre Maurois | Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. | 105 |
| Anselm Kiefer | Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. | 105 |
| Camille Pissarro | Paint the essential character of things. | 105 |
| Corita Kent | Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol. | 105 |
| Donald Johanson | Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. | 105 |
| Jerry Saltz | All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. | 105 |
| Jet Li | Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food. | 105 |
| John Berger | What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. | 105 |
| Michael Morpurgo | We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.' | 105 |
| Arne Jacobsen | When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right. | 105 |
| Clara Schumann | My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. | 105 |
| John Sununu | Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. | 105 |
| Max Beerbohm | When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. | 105 |
| Alfred Stieglitz | The goal of art was the vital expression of self. | 105 |
| Mark Rothko | Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. | 105 |
| Sheena Iyengar | Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. | 105 |
| Isaac Newton | Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. | 106 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. | 106 |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. | 106 |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. | 106 |
| Tom Stoppard | Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. | 106 |
| Agnes Martin | The value of art is in the observer. | 106 |
| Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art. | 106 |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky | I always think that art is a form of sacrifice. | 106 |
| Anne Hathaway | Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. | 106 |
| Ashton Kutcher | Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' | 106 |
| Carl Rogers | The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. | 106 |
| Casey Neistat | Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles. | 106 |
| Charles de Lint | The best artists know what to leave out. | 106 |
| Evelyn Waugh | Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. | 106 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Art depends on luck and talent. | 106 |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson | The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. | 106 |
| Henri Matisse | With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. | 106 |
| Henry James | We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. | 106 |
| Henry Moore | 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. | 106 |
| Jodie Foster | I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. | 106 |
| Jon Kabat-Zinn | Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art. | 106 |
| Lana Del Rey | I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity. | 106 |
| Lincoln Steffens | Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. | 106 |
| Lou Reed | I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. | 106 |
| Lucian Freud | A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. | 106 |
| Marissa Mayer | You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms. | 106 |
| Nick Cave | The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. | 106 |
| Paul Klee | The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. | 106 |
| Paul Valery | An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. | 106 |
| Ray Kurzweil | All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. | 106 |
| Robert Delaunay | Painting is by nature a luminous language. | 106 |
| Roy Lichtenstein | Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. | 106 |
| Salma Hayek | I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. | 106 |
| Stephen Sondheim | Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. | 106 |
| William Bernbach | Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. | 106 |
| Yoko Ono | Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. | 106 |
| Zaha Hadid | I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. | 106 |
| Amiri Baraka | Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. | 106 |
| Emile Zola | The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. | 106 |
| Grace Jones | Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. | 106 |
| Ha-Joon Chang | Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for. | 106 |
| John O'Donohue | The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. | 106 |
| Junot Diaz | Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it. | 106 |
| Michael Franti | Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. | 106 |
| Rick Pitino | Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. | 106 |
| Willem de Kooning | I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art. | 106 |
| Arne Jacobsen | If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. | 106 |
| John Cage | When we separate music from life we get art. | 106 |
| John Galliano | There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art. | 106 |
| Alfred Eisenstaedt | We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. | 106 |
| Maurice Chevalier | An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. | 106 |
| Robert Indiana | I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. | 106 |
| Andy Warhol | We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. | 107 |
| Epicurus | The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. | 107 |
| Michel Foucault | Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. | 107 |
| Pablo Picasso | The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. | 107 |
| W. H. Auden | What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. | 107 |
| Walt Whitman | The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. | 107 |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. | 107 |
| Charles Bukowski | An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. | 107 |
| Sylvia Plath | Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. | 107 |
| William Osler | Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. | 107 |
| Alanis Morissette | I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. | 107 |
| Alfred Adler | The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. | 107 |
| Claude Debussy | Extreme complication is contrary to art. | 107 |
| F. Sionil Jose | Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. | 107 |
| Frank Zappa | Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. | 107 |
| George Henry Lewes | Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. | 107 |
| Gunter Grass | Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. | 107 |
| Hans Hofmann | Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. | 107 |
| Havelock Ellis | Every artist writes his own autobiography. | 107 |
| Henri Matisse | Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. | 107 |
| Jackson Pollock | Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. | 107 |
| Jim Davis | There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. | 107 |
| John Updike | Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. | 107 |
| Madame de Stael | Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. | 107 |
| Marcel Duchamp | What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap. | 107 |
| Morihei Ueshiba | To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. | 107 |
| Octavio Paz | The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. | 107 |
| Paul Klee | One eye sees, the other feels. | 107 |
| Pope Paul VI | The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. | 107 |
| Stanley Kubrick | The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. | 107 |
| Thom Yorke | My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. | 107 |
| Tom DeLonge | I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be... it's not art, it's expression. | 107 |
| Walter Benjamin | The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. | 107 |
| Andre Malraux | Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. | 107 |
| Beverly Sills | Art is the signature of civilizations. | 107 |
| Edward Steichen | Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. | 107 |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. | 107 |
| Javier Bardem | Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art. | 107 |
| Jerry Saltz | 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being. | 107 |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland | The temple of art is built in words. | 107 |
| Louis Nizer | A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. | 107 |
| Pierre Bonnard | Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. | 107 |
| Robert Smithson | Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. | 107 |
| Sol LeWitt | Minimal art went nowhere. | 107 |
| Jerzy Kosinski | The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. | 107 |
| Aristotle | Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. | 108 |
| William James | The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. | 108 |
| John Ruskin | Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. | 108 |
| Theodor Adorno | The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. | 108 |
| Charles Eames | Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. | 108 |
| Christina Aguilera | I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque. | 108 |
| Edith Wharton | Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. | 108 |
| Elia Kazan | The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. | 108 |
| Emile Durkheim | The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. | 108 |
| Federico Fellini | All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. | 108 |
| Frank Gehry | It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. | 108 |
| Havelock Ellis | All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. | 108 |
| Helen Hayes | I cry out for order and find it only in art. | 108 |
| Henri Matisse | What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. | 108 |
| James Franco | I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously. | 108 |
| Jean Cocteau | An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. | 108 |
| Keanu Reeves | The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide. | 108 |
| Marcel Duchamp | Can works be made which are not 'of art'? | 108 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. | 108 |
| Oriana Fallaci | Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. | 108 |
| Quentin Tarantino | I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. | 108 |
| Saul Bellow | What is art but a way of seeing? | 108 |
| Steve Prefontaine | My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. | 108 |
| Temple Grandin | Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' | 108 |
| Tony Blair | The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. | 108 |
| Walter Winchell | Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. | 108 |
| Auguste Rodin | Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. | 108 |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. | 108 |
| Jerry Saltz | Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. | 108 |
| John Berger | Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. | 108 |
| Marc Chagall | When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. | 108 |
| Rebecca West | Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. | 108 |
| Sarah McLachlan | Trying to force creativity is never good. | 108 |
| Francis Bacon | The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. | 109 |
| William Blake | He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. | 109 |
| Michelangelo | A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. | 109 |
| Adam Levine | I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form. | 109 |
| Agnes Martin | When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. | 109 |
| Ai Weiwei | If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? | 109 |
| Aristophanes | Let each man exercise the art he knows. | 109 |
| David Hockney | The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. | 109 |
| Denis Diderot | When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. | 109 |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 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. | 109 |
| Hans Hofmann | The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. | 109 |
| J. D. Salinger | An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. | 109 |
| Jack White | It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. | 109 |
| Jackson Pollock | Every good painter paints what he is. | 109 |
| Kate Chopin | To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. | 109 |
| Keith Haring | People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. | 109 |
| Nikki Giovanni | Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. | 109 |
| Paracelsus | Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. | 109 |
| Paul Gauguin | Art is either plagiarism or revolution. | 109 |
| Robert Delaunay | If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. | 109 |
| Wallace Stevens | Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. | 109 |
| Auguste Rodin | The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. | 109 |
| Jerry Saltz | Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money. | 109 |
| Pierre Bonnard | A painting that is well composed is half finished. | 109 |
| Jim Morrison | I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. | 110 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Art is never finished, only abandoned. | 110 |
| Salvador Dali | We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. | 110 |
| William Blake | Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. | 110 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. | 110 |
| Dante Alighieri | Nature is the art of God. | 110 |
| Michelangelo | Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. | 110 |
| William Wordsworth | Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. | 110 |
| Camille Paglia | Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. | 110 |
| David Hockney | Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. | 110 |
| Don Miguel Ruiz | Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. | 110 |
| Franz Liszt | Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. | 110 |
| Igor Stravinsky | Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. | 110 |
| Lewis Mumford | To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. | 110 |
| Miguel de Unamuno | Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. | 110 |
| Zayn Malik | I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing. | 110 |
| Charles Dudley Warner | A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. | 110 |
| Joshua Foer | During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination. | 110 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. | 111 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. | 111 |
| Paulo Coelho | We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. | 111 |
| D. H. Lawrence | The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. | 111 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. | 111 |
| Langston Hughes | An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. | 111 |
| Marcel Proust | Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. | 111 |
| Orson Welles | The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. | 111 |
| Billy Sunday | There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. | 111 |
| Camille Paglia | It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. | 111 |
| Charles Baudelaire | Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. | 111 |
| Chinua Achebe | Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. | 111 |
| Christopher Marlowe | O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. | 111 |
| Conrad Hall | Painting and writing are solitary arts. | 111 |
| David Hockney | What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. | 111 |
| Jackson Pollock | I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. | 111 |
| Martha Graham | The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. | 111 |
| James Taylor | That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. | 111 |
| Anais Nin | If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. | 112 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. | 112 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. | 112 |
| Leo Tolstoy | Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. | 112 |
| Pablo Picasso | Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. | 112 |
| Alfred North Whitehead | The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. | 112 |
| Charles Baudelaire | Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. | 112 |
| E. M. Forster | 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. | 112 |
| Jack Nicholson | I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different. | 112 |
| Keith Haring | Art is for everybody. | 112 |
| Logan Pearsall Smith | The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. | 112 |
| Oliver Herford | Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. | 112 |
| Paul Gauguin | The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. | 112 |
| John James Audubon | The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. | 112 |
| Emily Carr | Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. | 112 |
| C. S. Lewis | Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. | 113 |
| Dale Carnegie | The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. | 113 |
| Hippocrates | Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. | 113 |
| Andre Gide | Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. | 113 |
| James Joyce | It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. | 113 |
| Mao Zedong | There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. | 113 |
| Marshall McLuhan | Art is anything you can get away with. | 113 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. | 113 |
| Anatole France | In art as in love, instinct is enough. | 113 |
| Baltasar Gracian | Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. | 113 |
| David Hockney | I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. | 113 |
| Ezra Pound | All great art is born of the metropolis. | 113 |
| Franklin P. Jones | Originality is the art of concealing your source. | 113 |
| Friedrich Schiller | Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. | 113 |
| Henri Matisse | Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. | 113 |
| Kary Mullis | Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. | 113 |
| Pythagoras | The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. | 113 |
| Albert Camus | A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. | 114 |
| Andy Warhol | Land really is the best art. | 114 |
| Isaac Newton | Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. | 114 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | In art the best is good enough. | 114 |
| John Wooden | Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. | 114 |
| Andre Gide | Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. | 114 |
| James Joyce | Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. | 114 |
| Michelangelo | 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. | 114 |
| Rudyard Kipling | And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?' | 114 |
| Fran Lebowitz | Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. | 114 |
| George Sand | The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. | 114 |
| Helen Rowland | Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. | 114 |
| Herman Melville | 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. | 114 |
| Jean Cocteau | Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. | 114 |
| John Donne | Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. | 114 |
| Morihei Ueshiba | One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. | 114 |
| Robert Mapplethorpe | When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. | 114 |
| Thom Yorke | I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. | 114 |
| William Morris | If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. | 114 |
| William S. Burroughs | I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? | 114 |
| Hippocrates | Life is short, the art long. | 115 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. | 115 |
| Nicki Minaj | You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating. | 115 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. | 115 |
| Dante Alighieri | 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. | 115 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. | 115 |
| Marshall McLuhan | I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. | 115 |
| Steve Martin | I'm enamored with the art world. | 115 |
| Ann Landers | All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. | 115 |
| Diane Arbus | I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. | 115 |
| Friedrich Schiller | Art is the daughter of freedom. | 115 |
| Jackson Pollock | My painting does not come from the easel. | 115 |
| Jean Cocteau | Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. | 115 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. | 115 |
| Matthew McConaughey | I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win. | 115 |
| Morihei Ueshiba | There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. | 115 |
| Jerry Saltz | Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. | 115 |
| Emily Dickinson | Where thou art, that is home. | 116 |
| Groucho Marx | Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. | 116 |
| Katharine Hepburn | I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky. | 116 |
| Rabindranath Tagore | In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. | 116 |
| Charles Bukowski | To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. | 116 |
| Marshall McLuhan | Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. | 116 |
| Gertrude Stein | A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. | 116 |
| William Hazlitt | Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. | 116 |
| Jay Kay | I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. | 116 |
| Walt Whitman | I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. | 117 |
| Freddie Mercury | I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. | 117 |
| Iris Murdoch | All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. | 117 |
| John Wayne | Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. | 117 |
| John Updike | Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. | 117 |
| Leon Trotsky | Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. | 117 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? | 117 |
| Umberto Eco | Translation is the art of failure. | 117 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. | 118 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' | 118 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. | 118 |
| Will Rogers | Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. | 118 |
| David Rockefeller | The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. | 118 |
| J. Paul Getty | My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. | 118 |
| Jackson Pollock | The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. | 118 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. | 118 |
| Laurie Anderson | I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. | 118 |
| Anish Kapoor | Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. | 118 |
| Aristotle | The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. | 119 |
| Iris Murdoch | Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. | 119 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. | 119 |
| Andre Gide | There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. | 119 |
| Ansel Adams | There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. | 119 |
| Anton Chekhov | There is nothing new in art except talent. | 119 |
| Arnold Palmer | What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. | 119 |
| J. Paul Getty | The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. | 119 |
| Samuel Butler | Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. | 119 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 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. | 120 |
| Alexander Pope | A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. | 120 |
| John Keats | The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. | 120 |
| Alan Rickman | If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. | 120 |
| Anatole France | The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. | 120 |
| Gustave Flaubert | Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. | 120 |
| Novalis | The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. | 120 |
| William Hazlitt | Rules and models destroy genius and art. | 120 |
| Wilson Mizner | Art is science made clear. | 120 |
| Kanye West | The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' | 121 |
| Socrates | Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. | 121 |
| Albert Camus | A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. | 121 |
| Thomas Merton | Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. | 121 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. | 121 |
| Charles Baudelaire | To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. | 121 |
| Flannery O'Connor | The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. | 121 |
| Honore de Balzac | The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. | 121 |
| Jean Cocteau | Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. | 121 |
| Ovid | Art lies by its own artifice. | 121 |
| Paul Cezanne | The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. | 121 |
| Walt Disney | I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. | 122 |
| D. H. Lawrence | The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. | 122 |
| Peter De Vries | Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. | 122 |
| W. Somerset Maugham | The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. | 122 |
| William Hazlitt | Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. | 122 |
| Voltaire | The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. | 123 |
| Terry Pratchett | In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. | 123 |
| Paul Cezanne | I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. | 123 |
| Arthur Erickson | Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. | 123 |
| Winston Churchill | Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. | 124 |
| Marshall McLuhan | Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. | 124 |
| Albert Einstein | It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. | 125 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. | 125 |
| Charlie Chaplin | I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. | 125 |
| Pablo Picasso | Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. | 125 |
| W. H. Auden | Art is born of humiliation. | 125 |
| Michelangelo | The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. | 125 |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. | 125 |
| Rudyard Kipling | It's clever, but is it Art? | 125 |
| Gustave Flaubert | Of all lies, art is the least untrue. | 125 |
| Paul Cezanne | With an apple I will astonish Paris. | 125 |
| Steven Pinker | Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. | 125 |
| Marcus Aurelius | The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. | 126 |
| Anais Nin | It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. | 126 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. | 126 |
| Leo Tolstoy | To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. | 126 |
| Marilyn Manson | My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way. | 126 |
| Honore de Balzac | If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. | 126 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. | 201 |
| 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. | 201 |
| Salvador Dali | Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. | 201 |
| W. H. Auden | 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' | 201 |
| Samuel Butler | The history of art is the history of revivals. | 201 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Space is the breath of art. | 202 |
| Theodor Adorno | Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. | 202 |
| Paul Cezanne | Art is a harmony parallel with nature. | 202 |
| W. Somerset Maugham | Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. | 202 |
| H. L. Mencken | Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. | 203 |
| Jimi Hendrix | My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. | 203 |
| Martin Luther | Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. | 203 |
| Pablo Picasso | Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. | 203 |
| Horace | A picture is a poem without words. | 203 |
| Paul Cezanne | 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. | 204 |
| Denis Waitley | Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. | 205 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. | 205 |
| Oscar Wilde | Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. | 206 |
| John Lennon | If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. | 206 |
| Martin Luther | Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. | 206 |
| Salvador Dali | The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. | 206 |
| William Blake | Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. | 206 |
| Marcus Aurelius | When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. | 207 |
| Oscar Wilde | Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. | 207 |
| Blaise Pascal | Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. | 207 |
| Edmund Burke | Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. | 207 |
| George Santayana | An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. | 207 |
| Andy Warhol | I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. | 208 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. | 208 |
| Sun Tzu | The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. | 209 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. | 209 |
| Alexander Pope | So vast is art, so narrow human wit. | 209 |
| Nelson Mandela | I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. | 210 |
| Elbert Hubbard | Art is not a thing; it is a way. | 210 |
| Barbra Streisand | I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. | 210 |
| Sun Tzu | The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. | 211 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. | 211 |
| Mae West | Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. | 211 |
| Henry Miller | The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. | 211 |
| Octavio Paz | Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. | 211 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. | 212 |
| Francis Bacon | Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. | 212 |
| William Blake | The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. | 212 |
| Elbert Hubbard | The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. | 212 |
| Harry S Truman | Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. | 213 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | 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. | 214 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. | 214 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | All art is but imitation of nature. | 214 |
| Marshall McLuhan | Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. | 214 |
| Confucius | Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. | 215 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. | 215 |
| Marilyn Manson | I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. | 215 |
| Tennessee Williams | All good art is an indiscretion. | 215 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. | 216 |
| Pablo Picasso | The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. | 216 |
| John F. Kennedy | If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. | 217 |
| Francis Bacon | The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. | 217 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. | 217 |
| George Bernard Shaw | A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. | 219 |
| George Lucas | All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. | 219 |
| Pablo Picasso | Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. | 220 |
| William Butler Yeats | I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. | 221 |
| John Ruskin | Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. | 221 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every artist was first an amateur. | 223 |
| George Bernard Shaw | She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. | 223 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. | 224 |
| Lord Byron | The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. | 224 |
| Victor Hugo | 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. | 224 |
| Albert Einstein | The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. | 226 |
| Karl Marx | Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. | 226 |
| C. S. Lewis | Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. | 301 |
| Pablo Picasso | There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. | 302 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | Politics is the art of controlling your environment. | 303 |
| Pablo Picasso | Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. | 306 |
| Aristotle | Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. | 307 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | We have art in order not to die of the truth. | 309 |
| George Bernard Shaw | You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. | 310 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. | 312 |
| Will Rogers | Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. | 312 |
| Damien Hirst | In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. | 312 |
| Voltaire | In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. | 313 |
| Aristotle | Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. | 314 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Pictures must not be too picturesque. | 314 |
| Maya Angelou | Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. | 315 |
| Oscar Wilde | It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. | 315 |
| Khalil Gibran | Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. | 317 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. | 317 |
| Oscar Wilde | Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. | 319 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | 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. | 319 |
| Aristotle | Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. | 321 |
| Theodor Adorno | Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. | 322 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Personality is everything in art and poetry. | 323 |
| Aristotle | Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. | 401 |
| Oscar Wilde | If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. | 404 |
| Oscar Wilde | It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. | 405 |
| Oscar Wilde | A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. | 406 |
| Oscar Wilde | No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. | 408 |
| William Shakespeare | There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. | 408 |
| Oscar Wilde | There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. | 410 |
| Khalil Gibran | I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. | 412 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Art is the proper task of life. | 423 |
| Abraham Lincoln | The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. | 503 |
| Oscar Wilde | It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. | 503 |
| Oscar Wilde | A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. | 504 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. | 506 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. | 510 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' | 512 |
| Oscar Wilde | What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. | 611 |
| Albert Camus | Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. | 612 |
| Albert Einstein | I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. | 719 |
| Albert Einstein | True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. | 722 |
| Oscar Wilde | No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. | 808 |
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