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Art Quotes


"angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough...."

Full 'George Moore' Quote   Source: George Moore
"nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art...."

Full 'Louis Nizer' Quote   Source: Louis Nizer
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone..."

Full 'Paul Gauguin' Quote   Source: Paul Gauguin
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with..."

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important..."

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."

Full 'Eugene Ionesco' Quote   Source: Eugene Ionesco
"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price"

Full 'Marcel Proust' Quote   Source: Marcel Proust
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

Full 'Paul Cezanne' Quote   Source: Paul Cezanne
"perception, but education in general and art and science in particular are..."

Full 'Ian Mcharg' Quote   Source: Ian Mcharg
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

Full 'Havelock Ellis' Quote   Source: Havelock Ellis
"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create..."

Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote   Source: W. H. Auden
"not care for the slogan "art for art's sake" ...there can be no..."

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical..."

Full 'Thomas Mann' Quote   Source: Thomas Mann
"And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous."

Full 'Toni Morrison' Quote   Source: Toni Morrison
"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of..."

Full 'Edith Wharton' Quote   Source: Edith Wharton
"aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its..."

Full 'Joseph Conrad' Quote   Source: Joseph Conrad
"Art happens -- no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the..."

Full 'Whistler' Quote   Source: Whistler
"Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament."

Full 'Emile Zola' Quote   Source: Emile Zola
"Art is a jealous mistress."

Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote   Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art is a moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without..."

Full 'Emma Thompson' Quote   Source: Emma Thompson
"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's..."

Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote   Source: Ayn Rand
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Full 'Paul Gauguin' Quote   Source: Paul Gauguin
"Art is I; science is we."

Full 'Claude Bernard' Quote   Source: Claude Bernard
"Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing"

Full 'Boris Pasternak' Quote   Source: Boris Pasternak
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."

Full 'Frank Zappa' Quote   Source: Frank Zappa
"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

Full 'George Sand' Quote   Source: George Sand
"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

Full 'Nikki Giovanni' Quote   Source: Nikki Giovanni
"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and..."

Full 'Pablo Picasso' Quote   Source: Pablo Picasso
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

Full 'Edgar Degas' Quote   Source: Edgar Degas
"Art is right reason in the doing of work."

Full 'St Thomas Aquinas' Quote   Source: St Thomas Aquinas
"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an"

Full 'James Joyce' Quote   Source: James Joyce
"Art is the signature of civilization."

Full 'Beverly Sills' Quote   Source: Beverly Sills
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and"

Full 'Theodore Dreiser' Quote   Source: Theodore Dreiser
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus."

Full 'William Blake' Quote   Source: William Blake
"Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice."

Full 'Boris Pasternak' Quote   Source: Boris Pasternak
"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."

Full 'Edgar Degas' Quote   Source: Edgar Degas
"Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end."

Full 'George Moore' Quote   Source: George Moore
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"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what"

Full 'Paul Gauguin' Quote   Source: Paul Gauguin
"Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life."

Full 'Henry Miller' Quote   Source: Henry Miller
"Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life."

Full 'Michael Korda' Quote   Source: Michael Korda
"Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment."

Full 'Margaret Anderson' Quote   Source: Margaret Anderson
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Full 'Pablo Picasso' Quote   Source: Pablo Picasso
"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master;..."

Full 'Dante' Quote   Source: Dante
"to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

Full 'Socrates' Quote   Source: Socrates
"closest we can get to a definition of art."

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp"

Full 'Max Eastman' Quote   Source: Max Eastman
"thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as..."

Full 'Richard Burton' Quote   Source: Richard Burton
"is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

Full 'Scott Adams' Quote   Source: Scott Adams
"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the..."

Full 'George Jean Nathan' Quote   Source: George Jean Nathan
"most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere..."

Full 'Havelock Ellis' Quote   Source: Havelock Ellis
"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write..."

Full 'Donald Trump' Quote   Source: Donald Trump
"called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those whom thou..."

Full 'John Donne' Quote   Source: John Donne
"the ultimate cause of all joy and all art...."

Full 'Paul Theroux' Quote   Source: Paul Theroux
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."

Full 'Will Rogers' Quote   Source: Will Rogers
"Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities."

Full 'Marcus Terentius Varro' Quote   Source: Marcus Terentius Varro
"Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and..."

Full 'Eliza Farnham' Quote   Source: Eliza Farnham
"Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see."

Full 'George Higgins' Quote   Source: George Higgins
"Every great work of art is offensive to someone, for a work of art is a..."

Full 'Gerald W. Johnson' Quote   Source: Gerald W. Johnson
"save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and..."

Full 'Thomas Fuller' Quote   Source: Thomas Fuller
"Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!"

Full 'David Letterman' Quote   Source: David Letterman
"attention to the mind, nature, society, the arts - all spheres created by..."

Full 'Mark A. Noll' Quote   Source: Mark A. Noll
"slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap...."

Full 'Joseph Alsop' Quote   Source: Joseph Alsop
"Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living..."

Full 'Allen Ginsberg' Quote   Source: Allen Ginsberg
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own"

Full 'George Jean Nathan' Quote   Source: George Jean Nathan
"Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art...."

Full 'Dame Margot Fonteyn' Quote   Source: Dame Margot Fonteyn
"Hail Guest! We ask not what thou art; If Friend, we greet thee; hand and..."

Full 'Arthur Guiterman' Quote   Source: Arthur Guiterman
"me, Hip-hop is the true inspiration of art...."

Full 'Robin Thicke' Quote   Source: Robin Thicke
"I adore art . . . when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the..."

Full 'Giuseppe Verdi' Quote   Source: Giuseppe Verdi
"I am an artist, art has no color and no sex."

Full 'Whoopi Goldberg' Quote   Source: Whoopi Goldberg
"believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you..."

Full 'Steve Martin' Quote   Source: Steve Martin
"for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums...."

Full 'Christina Aguilera' Quote   Source: Christina Aguilera
"I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has"

Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Bowen
"I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no..."

Full 'Andrew Wyeth' Quote   Source: Andrew Wyeth
"I think that in a work of art there is a kind of merging between the two..."

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life-..."

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce..."

Full 'Ellen Terry' Quote   Source: Ellen Terry
"harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and..."

Full 'Herbert Marcuse' Quote   Source: Herbert Marcuse
"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing..."

Full 'Dean Acheson' Quote   Source: Dean Acheson
"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may..."

Full 'Maxwell Anderson' Quote   Source: Maxwell Anderson
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,"

Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Bowen
"I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists"

Full 'Jim Morrison' Quote   Source: Jim Morrison
"In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts."

Full 'Louis Kronenberger' Quote   Source: Louis Kronenberger
"In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is..."

Full 'Henri Matisse' Quote   Source: Henri Matisse
"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

Full 'Julia Child' Quote   Source: Julia Child
"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command..."

Full 'Luciano Pavarotti' Quote   Source: Luciano Pavarotti
"In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter..."

Full 'Renoir' Quote   Source: Renoir
"Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to..."

Full 'Havelock Ellis' Quote   Source: Havelock Ellis
"more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it...."

Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote   Source: W. H. Auden
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of..."

Full 'Henry James' Quote   Source: Henry James
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of..."

Full 'Max Eastman' Quote   Source: Max Eastman
"of steadfast attention to God; yet no art could more closely serve God's..."

Full 'Evelyn Underhill' Quote   Source: Evelyn Underhill
"constitutes the romantic character in art...."

Full 'Walter Hagen' Quote   Source: Walter Hagen
"intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with..."

Full 'Aldous Huxley' Quote   Source: Aldous Huxley
"anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens...."

Full 'Miles Davis' Quote   Source: Miles Davis
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done"

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done"

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"Life and art are not two different things."

Full 'Felix Mendelssohn' Quote   Source: Felix Mendelssohn
"Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous,"

Full 'Hippocrates' Quote   Source: Hippocrates
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

Full 'John Gardner' Quote   Source: John Gardner
"nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."

Full 'Jean Anouilh' Quote   Source: Jean Anouilh
"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend..."

Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote   Source: Jimmy Carter
"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."

Full 'Benjamin Jowett' Quote   Source: Benjamin Jowett
"Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence."

Full 'Joseph Wood Krutch' Quote   Source: Joseph Wood Krutch
"Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art"

Full 'Marilyn Ferguson' Quote   Source: Marilyn Ferguson
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."

Full 'William Osler' Quote   Source: William Osler
"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of"

Full 'Rebecca West' Quote   Source: Rebecca West
"But, man, there's no boundary line to art...."

Full 'Charlie Parker' Quote   Source: Charlie Parker
"Nature is the art of God eternal."

Full 'Dante' Quote   Source: Dante
"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection..."

Full 'Edgar Degas' Quote   Source: Edgar Degas
"again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident,..."

Full 'Edgar Degas' Quote   Source: Edgar Degas
"thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats..."

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a..."

Full 'Marilyn French' Quote   Source: Marilyn French
"not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life...."

Full 'Joseph Conrad' Quote   Source: Joseph Conrad
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting"

Full 'Laurence Peter' Quote   Source: Laurence Peter
"People make a mistake who think that my art has come easily to me. Nobody..."

Full 'Mozart' Quote   Source: Mozart
"Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for..."

Full 'Barry Goldwater' Quote   Source: Barry Goldwater
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between..."

Full 'John Kenneth Galbraith' Quote   Source: John Kenneth Galbraith
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or..."

Full 'Ernest Benn' Quote   Source: Ernest Benn
"Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself."

Full 'Margaret Atwood' Quote   Source: Margaret Atwood
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

Full 'Don Marquis' Quote   Source: Don Marquis
"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective..."

Full 'Angela Davis' Quote   Source: Angela Davis
"Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life."

Full 'Justin Brooks Atkinson' Quote   Source: Justin Brooks Atkinson
"human nature unless all candied over with art."

Full 'Virginia Woolf' Quote   Source: Virginia Woolf
"adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end..."

Full 'Beethoven' Quote   Source: Beethoven
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and"

Full 'Willa Cather' Quote   Source: Willa Cather
"resulting from an attempt to popularize art...."

Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote   Source: Ezra Pound
"Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the..."

Full 'Greg Norman' Quote   Source: Greg Norman
"think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be the..."

Full 'Renoir' Quote   Source: Renoir
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time..."

Full 'Gloria Naylor' Quote   Source: Gloria Naylor
"stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like..."

Full 'Phyllis Mcginley' Quote   Source: Phyllis Mcginley
"keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

Full 'Miguel De Cervantes' Quote   Source: Miguel De Cervantes
"Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a..."

Full 'Helen Rowland' Quote   Source: Helen Rowland
"getting into the war is the necessary art. . . . if you are scared to go to..."

Full 'John Foster Dulles' Quote   Source: John Foster Dulles
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a..."

Full 'J. Russell Lynes' Quote   Source: J. Russell Lynes
"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."

Full 'Whoopi Goldberg' Quote   Source: Whoopi Goldberg
"The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into..."

Full 'Wyndham Lewis' Quote   Source: Wyndham Lewis
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of"

Full 'Walt Whitman' Quote   Source: Walt Whitman
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

Full 'William James' Quote   Source: William James
"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say"

Full 'Tony Blair' Quote   Source: Tony Blair
"The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the..."

Full 'Adolf Hitler' Quote   Source: Adolf Hitler
"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one"

Full 'Henry Taylor' Quote   Source: Henry Taylor
"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."

Full 'Albert Ellis' Quote   Source: Albert Ellis
"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of..."

Full 'Paul Klee' Quote   Source: Paul Klee
"The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to..."

Full 'Konrad Adenauer' Quote   Source: Konrad Adenauer
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth,"

Full 'Walter Benjamin' Quote   Source: Walter Benjamin
"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying..."

Full 'Walter Benjamin' Quote   Source: Walter Benjamin
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him..."

Full 'Ulysses S Grant' Quote   Source: Ulysses S Grant
"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not..."

Full 'Sun Tzu' Quote   Source: Sun Tzu
"The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat"

Full 'Mary Heaton Vorse' Quote   Source: Mary Heaton Vorse
"challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to..."

Full 'Hillary Rodham Clinton' Quote   Source: Hillary Rodham Clinton
"to Africa came back with "modern' art. What is more African than a..."

Full 'Duke Ellington' Quote   Source: Duke Ellington
"horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."

Full 'Paul Klee' Quote   Source: Paul Klee
"the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this..."

Full 'Albert Einstein' Quote   Source: Albert Einstein
"The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art,"

Full 'Flannery O'Connor' Quote   Source: Flannery O'Connor
"The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to..."

Full 'Lenny Bruce' Quote   Source: Lenny Bruce
"The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends."

Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote   Source: Max Beerbohm
"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

Full 'Edgar Quinet' Quote   Source: Edgar Quinet
"The philosophy of the martial arts makes kids goal-oriented and makes them..."

Full 'Chuck Norris' Quote   Source: Chuck Norris
"The purpose of art is to delight us; certain men and women (no smarter than..."

Full 'David Mamet' Quote   Source: David Mamet
"conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle...."

Full 'Stanley Kubrick' Quote   Source: Stanley Kubrick
"discover the deeper meanings in modern art...."

Full 'Jackson Pollock' Quote   Source: Jackson Pollock
"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor..."

Full 'Joshua Reynolds' Quote   Source: Joshua Reynolds
"it . . . did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind...."

Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote   Source: Heinrich Heine
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural..."

Full 'Anatole France' Quote   Source: Anatole France
"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you..."

Full 'Renoir' Quote   Source: Renoir
"emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly..."

Full 'Jack Nicklaus' Quote   Source: Jack Nicklaus
"where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an..."

Full 'Rebecca West' Quote   Source: Rebecca West
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of"

Full 'Clarence Day' Quote   Source: Clarence Day
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of"

Full 'Clarence Day' Quote   Source: Clarence Day
"little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and..."

Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote   Source: Samuel Johnson
"Thought is more important than art. . . . To revere art and have no..."

Full 'Imamu Amiri Baraka' Quote   Source: Imamu Amiri Baraka
"will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote   Source: Henry Ward Beecher
"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex"

Full 'George Jean Nathan' Quote   Source: George Jean Nathan
"talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one..."

Full 'Mozart' Quote   Source: Mozart
"and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the..."

Full 'Leo Tolstoy' Quote   Source: Leo Tolstoy
"True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into"

Full 'William R. Alger' Quote   Source: William R. Alger
"Unfortunately any performing art needs an audience and the audience to some..."

Full 'Mira Sorvino' Quote   Source: Mira Sorvino
"preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are..."

Full 'Joseph Alsop' Quote   Source: Joseph Alsop
"thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one..."

Full 'Salvador Dali' Quote   Source: Salvador Dali
"We have art that we do not die of the truth."

Full 'Friedrich Nietzsche' Quote   Source: Friedrich Nietzsche
"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of"

Full 'John F Kennedy' Quote   Source: John F Kennedy
"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And..."

Full 'Groucho Marx' Quote   Source: Groucho Marx
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of..."

Full 'Henri Matisse' Quote   Source: Henri Matisse
"of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to..."

Full 'Paul Cezanne' Quote   Source: Paul Cezanne
"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight"

Full 'Arnold Palmer' Quote   Source: Arnold Palmer
"it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and..."

Full 'Maxwell Anderson' Quote   Source: Maxwell Anderson
"When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul."

Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote   Source: Max Beerbohm
"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object..."

Full 'Paul Cezanne' Quote   Source: Paul Cezanne
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the..."

Full 'Daniel Webster' Quote   Source: Daniel Webster
"Wherever art appears, life disappears."

Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote   Source: Francis Picabia
"think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form."

Full 'Gustav Flaubert' Quote   Source: Gustav Flaubert