Quotation Explorer - 'Art'

In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ... - Susi Moore

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless. - William Golding

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art. - Jalaluddin Rumi

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. - Jim Morrison

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. - Emily Carr

The journey of life, creates my art!!! - Michael Judkins

You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are. - David Bayles and Ted Orland

My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and putting a frame around it so that we could look at it, have control over it. Story and art are the humanizing elements of us. - Emma Thompson

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living. - Jeanette Winterson

I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good. - Jim Henson

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art - Dean Cavanagh

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. - Cyril Connolly

Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real. - Marty Rubin

Sadness is a part of life; Love is the heart of life; But facing pain and to come out strong is the real art of life - Wrushank Sorte

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us. - Joris-Karl Huysmans

Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art - Marty Rubin

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless - Luhraw

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains. - Henri Bergson

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. - Arthur Erickson

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. - Oscar Wilde

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. - Robert W. Sarnoff

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. - Ambrose Bierce

The perfection of art is to conceal art. - Quintilian

An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. - Rebecca West

You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad. - Mark Rothko

Art is the proper task of life. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. - Germaine de Staël

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality. - George Saunders

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. - Marco Tempest

The true art of memory, is the art of attention - Samuel Johnson

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art. - Cathryn Louis

Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation - Angela Y. Davis

art is when you listen the universe, magic is when the universe listens to you. - Nonymos

Art can't hurt you.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down. - Julia Cameron

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. - Epictetus

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it. - Edgar Degas

Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly! - Samuel Johnson

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art. - Fiore Dei Liberi

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

The art of being bored is lost. - Ted Klauber

What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art. - J.R. Rim

You cannot negotiate art. - Amit Kalantri

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win. - Joe leigh-Corrigan

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living - John Cage

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is Alchemy. - ELLE NICOLAI

Poetry is the scholar's art. - Wallace Stevens

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art. - Lana Del Rey

No art or science can penetrate that deepest of mysteries: what will happen tomorrow. - Marty Rubin

Making children happy is the best art. - Marty Rubin

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it. - Albrecht Dürer

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. - Cyril Connolly

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it. - George Brecht

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. - Albert Camus

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties. - Walter Moers

If nothing else, believe in art - Anonymous

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. - M. C. Richards

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. - Henry Hazlitt

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. - Aristotle

Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art. - Garrett Robinson

Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline. - Paula Wagner

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between! - David Letterman

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. - Debasish Mridha

For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated. - Nike Thaddeus

My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece. - L.R.W. Lee

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human. - LeRoi Jones

The modern human has mastered the art of building toxic homes and cities. - Steven Magee

Art is the expression that the soul makes without having to explain itself, nor regard the criticism of others. - Reed Abbitt Moore

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. - C.G. Jung

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. - Lana Del Rey

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

What I dream of is an art of balance. - Henri Matisse

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message. - Chester Elijah Branch

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art - Leonardo da Vinci

Art lovers ought to be crazy.That's how they see the fun side of everything. - Saru Singhal

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant. - J.G. Ballard

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. - Ambrose Bierce

Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler. - Kevin Focke

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined. - Nicholas Meyer

Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings. - Marty Rubin

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. - Oscar Wilde

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. - Richie Norton

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam. - Thomas Moore

Explore Art without a campus, it is fulfilling in the unknown. - Unarine Ramaru

In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong. - Richard Powers

Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope. - Michel O'Brien

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. - Philip Kotler

Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art. - Earl M. Coleman

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. - Freya Stark

If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. - Don Roff

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw

Politics is the art of persuasion. Good ideas die because due to a lack of charisma or character. - A.E. Samaan

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as Man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Art is great fun but it's not important. What's important is to be healthy and love. - Marty Rubin

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun - Pablo Picasso

PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons. - Ambrose Bierce

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. - John Lennon

my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ...they at least make my art more interesting - Hiroko Sakai

Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer. - Ezra Pound

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing. - Trent Zelazny

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art. - Hermann Bahr

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy. - Debasish Mridha

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself. - Marty Rubin

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home. - Nikki Rowe

To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger. - Kathleen M. Rodgers

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation. - Theodore J. Kaczynski

I would suggest that the theater is the art form that most fully offers us an opportunity to reflect on the Incarnation because it is the presentation of one body to another. - Mother Dolores Hart

Woman with known intentintending to exploreWoman with her senses on the edgeedging for some more..."From my poem, "Known Intent" - The Poetic Art of Seduction - Volume 1©Clarissa O. Clemens - Clarissa Clemens

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance - Thomas Jefferson

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man. - William Styron

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Alice Walker

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before,push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm ofmagic. - Tom Robbins

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it. - Stefan Balint

History is conjecture raised to the level of an art. - Marty Rubin

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas. - Semen Frank

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mankind will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry, or money. - Ernst Levy

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses. - James Rozoff

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up. - William Saroyan

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands. - Jennifer Birkett

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. - Dejan Stojanovic

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. - W.H. Auden

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in. - Robert Henri

Life itself is an art form. - Tyree Guyton

In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own. - Kevin Focke

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

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them. - Sanhita Baruah

Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression. - Debasish Mridha

Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you! - Alison Blackmore

Works of art create their own rules. - Marty Rubin

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it. - Marcel Duchamp

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living… - Dione Lucas

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. - Will Durant

If women have failed to make universal art because we’re trapped within the personal, why not universalize the personal and make it the subject of our art? - Chris Kraus

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides. - Artur Schnabel

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. - Philip Johnson

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. - Heinrich Heine

In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft ... - Susi Moore

‎All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Havelock Ellis

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. - Steven Pinker

So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. - Joanna Russ

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch. - damali ayo

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition. - Robert Henri

Jealousy is the art of burning yourself inside out. - Debasish Mridha

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. - Robert Henri

Art has conveyed the passion of the soul into tangible , visual and audible matter - Romeo Liekens

Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul. - Manprit Kaur

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. - Steve Martin

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... - Susi Moore

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso

I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart. - Anthony Liccione

The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex. - Steve Maraboli

Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art. - Frances Fong

Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies. - Gerard de Marigny

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. - Toni Morrison

Every work of art tells a story. - A.D. Posey

If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. - David Foster Wallace

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. - Jalaluddin Rumi

No...he lives to create art, but he loves to murder. - Mo'Dayvia La'Beija

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion, history, art, and romance would be useless. - Honore de Balzac

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- 10/22/10 - Lady Gaga

You don't learn art from life, or life from art. - Marty Rubin

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. - Viktor E. Frankl

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life. - Clive Bell

In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel - John Paul Warren

Happiness is an art and the one who knows this art lives happily even if they don't have anything. - Raaz Ojha

Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart.I am in love with the universe and I praise nature’s art. - Debasish Mridha

Life isn't long enough for love and art. - W. Somerset Maugham

Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco

Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs. - Debasish Mridha

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. - Morrissey

The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. - Jean Cocteau

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. - Elie Wiesel

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. - Oscar Wilde

I don't want my life to imitate art, I want my life to be art. - Carrie Fisher

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. - Michel de Montaigne

Leadership is the art of intentional living. - Farshad Asl

Art is not an afterthought or a luxury. It is the creative expression of the human experience. - RC deWinter

The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum. - Joseph Epstein

Art is a manifestation of freedom. - Marty Rubin

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. - Julia Cameron

The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being. - Brianna Wiest

Writing and art are my lovers - Edna Stewart

We crafted everything that hurt us into art. - Jenim Dibie

You don’t make art out of good intentions. - Gustave Flaubert

The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world. - Shahin Najafi

Movement is knowledge. Art is perception - Armin Houman

Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas. - Debasish Mridha

Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It seems that the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked. For many centuries, in Christian art, depictions of hell offered both of these elemental satisfactions. - Sontag, Susan

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. - William Saroyan

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. - C.S. Lewis

What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is the really free man. He is free to have imagination. - Francis A. Schaeffer

If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them. - Unknown

There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art. - Beem Weeks

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist. - Craig Ferguson

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. - Edward Hopper

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best - Otto von Bismarck

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. - Harmony Korine

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat - Stanley Victor Paskavich

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. - Albert Einstein

Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you will be the richest art collector and your memory will be the richest art gallery! - Mehmet Murat ildan

All art is erotic. - Gustav Klimt

Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement. - Bertrand Russell

There are no rules. That is how art is born. - Helen Frankenthaler

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. - Boris Pasternak

Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar,My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die. - Timothy Salter

Art is I; science is we. - Claude Bernard

This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. - Raymond Chandler

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. - Jason E. Hodges

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings. - Thiruman Archunan

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. - François de La Rochefoucauld

Art is a passion or it is nothing - Robert Fry

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life. - A.D. Posey

Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure. - William Shakespeare

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised - James Thurber

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. - Upton Sinclair

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough. - Luhraw

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food. - François Jacob

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art - Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. - Ursula K. Le Guin

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. - Salvador Dalí

We possess art lest we perish of the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life. - Mabel Iam

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. - Jimmy Carter

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature. - Ramana Pemmaraju

There is a skill to learning. It is all about what is and what is not. While Science is knowing what is, Art is creating what is not. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. - William Faulkner

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them. - Michelle M. Pillow

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life. - Kuo Pao Kun

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art. - E.M. Forster

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me. - Alireza Salehi Nejad

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind - Jeremy Aldana

The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success… holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time. - Steve Maraboli

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. - Henry David Thoreau

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul - Kunal Jajal

The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art. - James Swan

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong. - Robert Henri

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. - Stephen King

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. - Jean Cocteau

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989] - Max Frisch

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,No languor, no dejection, no dismay,No absence scarcely can there be, for thoseWho love as we do. Speed thee well! - William Wordsworth

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas. - Theodore Zeldin

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. - E.M. Forster

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. - Ingmar Bergman

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance. - Rebecca O'Dwyer - Centred Woman

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed. - Iimani David

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between. - Robert Hughes

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people. - Sally Mann

You are magnificent and unique. Love yourself and stay unique and you will beautify this world with your unique art of life. - Debasish Mridha

Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?) - Jonathan Haidt

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

How comes it, that thou art then estranged from thyself? - William Shakespeare

Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken. - Jaeda DeWalt

For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. - Bible

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. - William Shakespeare

Art is a language which everyone understands in their own way. - Debasish Mridha

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life. - Eugène Carrière

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Great art is an escape from the agony of why. - Robert A. Kearse

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. - Amy Lowell

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain. - Till Lindemann

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? - Paul Gauguin

We have truth in order not to die of art. - Steve Aylett

All art is an imitation of nature. - Seneca

Each body has its art... - Gwendolyn Brooks

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. - Albert Einstein

Art is the illusion of spontaneity. - Japanese Proverb

Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions. - Debasish Mridha

Art is the fulfillment of things dreamed - Gerald Mills

All types and levels of art are beautiful, because art is beautiful, creativity is gorgeous and the artist itself is a masterpiece already. - Kelly Palmen

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. - Oscar Wilde

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. - Rick Riordan

State of the Art is the frenetic and relentless pursuit of doing what its best at that time! - Da Anunciação Marco

Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The Art of LivingIs in the Joy of GivingWith Love in your Heart - arthurite

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. - Henri Matisse

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Never judge a work of art by its defects - Washington Allston

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it. - Julia Cameron

Open spaces sing to my heartof the art of nature and the nature of art. - Jay Woodman

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. - John Stuart Mill

Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age - Baris Gencel

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. - Franz Kafka

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with. - William Shakespeare

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art. - Amy Leigh Mercree

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. - James Baldwin

I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!

Make Theory Talk is an art which is rare in the world. - Umair Hassan

Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical. - Shannon Taylor Hodnett

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first. - A.E. Samaan

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. - Paul Theroux

Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds. - Debasish Mridha

Thou art the Mars of malcontents. - William Shakespeare

...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few... - William Morris

But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. - Patti Smith

Life is serious but art is fun! - John Irving

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

There are no mistakes in art. - Maria Renteria

All great art is a form of complaint - John Cage

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do. - Andy Warhol

You know it's ART, when the check clears. - Andy Warhol

When happiness rides on the wings of art, it transcends time. - R. N. Prasher

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton

Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart. - Debasish Mridha

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. - Thomas Jefferson

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

The most beautiful work of art that we can create is this life. - Kristi Bowman

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart. - Samuel V. Chamberlain

Sum of life's reflections projected by nature and through some forms of intimacy, conceived and appreciated by the soul-beigns - ...art! - Taiwo Abraham

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

The forms art takes keep changing, but the themes remain the same. - Marty Rubin

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did. - Chris Ware

Philosophy is the art of conscience. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

A good half of the art of living is resilience. - Alain de Botton

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them. - Ben Shahn

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. - Albert Camus

You know what? I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm gonna make art, arty art art! - Andy Biersack

When dreams come true creativity becomes art. - Martin Schuster

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. - Solange nicole

It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece. - John Erskine

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply. - John Bright

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about. - Henry Ford

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft. - Hank Green

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. - Ashton Kutcher

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent Van Gogh

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness. - Malcolm Forbes

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. - W. H. Auden

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. - Jasper Johns

Art is a song of the soul that is sung by the light of the heart with the color of emotion and appreciation. - Debasish Mridha

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch. - Tyler Hojberg

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. - Bible

Rain is nature’s art; umbrella is man’s art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational. - R.N. Prasher

Prouder than a preschooler showin' refrigerator art! - K.D. Harp

Anything can be art: painting stairs, raising a child, or organising a trip to the end of the world. It's the way you live that makes you either an artist, or an art connoisseur, or an unsatisfied critic. - Mykyta Isagulov

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. - Izaak Walton

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in. - Charlotte Eriksson

Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life. This man shall be called, Father. - Stella Payton

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal. - Henry Miller

Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high heels."From: Frank and Ernest by , art by . - Bob Thaves

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery. - Amit Ray

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. - Tiffany Madison

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement. - Larken Rose

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. - Earl Wilson

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious. - Virginia Lee

If someone says something about your art that makes you feel bad, disregard it and joyfully make more art. - Gayle Wray

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. - Evan Esar

And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art. - Neil Gaiman

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. - Sara Sheridan

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool. - Tom Dolby

She never looked nice.She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. - Eleanor Park - Rainbow Rowell.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us. - Rebecca Solnit

What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art. - Marty Rubin

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. - Ludwig van Beethoven

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art. - Martha Graham

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. - E. V. Lucas

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity. - Bruce Lee

Art is a sense of magic. - Stan Brakhage

Practice transforms a skill into an art - Siddharth Joshi

Art is made by the alone for the alone. - Luis Barragán

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. - Charles Rosen

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised. - David Assael

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides! - Arthur Schnabel

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth. - Barbra Streisand

Sex is natural, but enjoying it's an art. - Marty Rubin

Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel. - ELLE NICOLAI

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. - Emmet Fox

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life, not only in the galleries and museums - Baris Gencel

my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one. - Carlos Barrios

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become. - Bruce Nauman

You want to fly? Find an art and watch it carefully! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Art is to console those who are broken by life. - Vincent Van Gogh

Art is my Life. - Olivia Sinaga

History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. - Susanne Langer

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason. - Thiruman Archunan

Much of our lives involves the word ‘no.’ In school we are mostly told, ‘Don’t do it this way. Do it that way.’ But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing. - Marvin Bell

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that. - Unarine Ramaru

In art as in love, instinct is enough. - Anatole France

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. - Robert Henri

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. - Steve Martin

Art is science made clear. - Jean Cocteau

Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. - Ambrose Bierce

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. - Flannery O'Connor

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing... - Alan Dapre

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Dorothy Nevill

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. - Elbert Hubbard

Life is art. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness. - Ayn Rand

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art - John Geddes

If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating. - William Shakespeare

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art. - Raymond Chandler

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. - Herophilus

Get to the next level by learning the art of investing in people. - -Shandel Slaten

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination. - Pawan Mishra

You don't get great art by playing it safe. - Stewart Stafford

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies

Art depicts life and life depicts art. - Bert McCoy

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits). - Richie Norton

While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122) - David N. Elkins

Art is a picture of the spirit. - Marty Rubin

An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way. - Marty Rubin

Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person.... - Ramana Pemmaraju

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? - Edith Wharton

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself. - Raneem Kayyali

Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. - Austin O'Malley

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art - Gary Hopkins

She doesn't know any other way to express her love, it always flowed like a river inside her. Don't judge her for the way she love .Like an artist she carves each relation in her life wholeheartedly. Now its an art work , you might not like her art but don't doubt her love which created that. - Archna Mohan

To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. - George Santayana

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. - don Miguel Ruiz

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see. - Betsy Hearne

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do. - Gary D. Schmidt

Let each man exercise the art he knows. - Aristophanes

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. - Bertrand Russell

Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul. - Debasish Mridha

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible. - Ray Bradbury

Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness how I cling to thee? - Anne Brontë

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art - Oscar Wilde

Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation. - Debasish Mridha

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws. - Blaise Pascal

The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day--a way of relating. - Joyce Carol Oates

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. - Michel de Montaigne

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. - Haruki Murakami

Art speaks to the soul, not the mind. - Aidan Crowe

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. - John Ciardi

Art is literacy of the heart. - Elliot Eisner

The Bible states in Psalms 139:14 that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and that you are a wonderful work of art. That makes you uniquely special. It only makes sense for you to just be the special you that you were created to be period. - DeWayne Owens

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul - Albert Camus

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can't be as bad as they are painted. - M. Walthall Jackson

A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection! - Mehek Bassi

Politics is a man in conflict with other men. Art is a man in conflict with himself. - Marty Rubin

Practice form, recognize forms, hone your natural gift, and let everything you experience teach you to never be a comparison. This is how art lasts, by pulling form first from the past. - James Emlund

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist - Albert Einstein

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination. - Jennifer Birkett

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection. - Jacqueline Patricks

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women. - Unarine Ramaru

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism. - Hermann Bahr

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed - Bernard Kelvin Clive

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces."[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)] - Shane L. Koyczan

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. - Robert Owen

To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity--be it art, music, literature, or science--is the way it enriches our lives. - Lawrence M. Krauss

My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process. - Jaeda DeWalt

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. - Barry Goldwater

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell. - Muhammad Zaki

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge. - Twyla Tharp

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence. - Young-Ha Kim

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival. - Alice Duer Miller

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. - Lytton Strachey

Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear - Amit K Ghosh

If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit. - Oliver Gaspirtz

Art is not about achievement, but rather a new perspective to look from. - Armin Houman

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. - Alfred Jarry

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. - Ambrose Bierce

The purpose of art is to add to our quality of life. - Marty Rubin

Art is life. - A.D. Posey

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. - Robert Henri

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

What would life be like without Music and Art? Dull, quiet, and sad. - Andrea L'Artiste

Beauty is Suspect" declare numerous art aficionados and by so saying have dethroned beauty from its art pedestal. For that reason many people feel speechless and in need of art shrinks."When is art? - Erik Pevernagie

I see a sacred beautiful art. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all. - Jacob Nordby

If chaos is a masterpiece,Then you should see my heart.If battle scars are beautiful,Then I'm a work of art. - Kyra Jackson

The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever. - Jonathan Heatt

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start. - Jason Mraz

Sunflowers hellos from gate to gate. The hour at the square. Candy, art, books, look. A warmth given. Beauties with rain forest hair Walk by the clock tower. Sunlight of neon, the keys inside their eyes. No storms. Traffic sounds, salt air. Salt that moves the thirst and destroys all the fears. - Gwen Calvo

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself. - Daisaku Ikeda

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. - Joss Whedon

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest. - Eddie Vedder

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils - Francis Bacon

If you judge art by its cover, then you efface the very essence of it - Evy Michaels

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. - Henry James

Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. This is the roar of change that beats within them. - 8/29/11 - A.H. Scott

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim

Music is the art of thinking with sounds. - Jules Combarieu

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books. - Vladimir Nabokov

It is a downright brilliant art to be ,successful quiet, in a bright noisy world. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. - Robert W. Sarnoff

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto Von Bismarck

Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart. - Vinayak

The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art. - Ward Jenkins

Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around. - Marty Rubin

Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind - Bhupesh B. Patil

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

Live, share and learn the art of true deep listening. The main keys are honesty and humility.Cultivate good filters in the mind. Conquer and tame the ego. If words and actions pass from your lips, sights and tapping words in the keyboard, don't forget to ask first, "Is it true, necessary and kind? - Angelica Hopes

To me art means power to sway people not with my words but with a mere picture. Art means expression, not my own but of the subjects. Art means truth; because when you see a picture you see all that is real. Art is exposure, showing things in a way they haven’t been seen before. - CV

A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and words can change the world. - John Thomas Allen

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

In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax. - Amit Kalantri

Art is not a thing; it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous. - Lloyd Alexander

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Ernest Benn

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. - Ulysses S. Grant

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. - Tiffany Madison

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. - Amit Kalantri

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. - Jack Schmitt

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere. - Dejan Stojanovic

Art is either revolution or plagiarism - Paul Gauguin

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. - John Cheever

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. - A.D. Posey

If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you could have created, because it wasn’t from the right source. - Michael Bassey Johnson

When we know how to be at peace, we find that art is a wonderful way to share our peacefulness. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score. - Kurt Vonnegut

I understand art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being - Moulin Rouge

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. - Max Beckmann

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race. - Henry G. Stott

Listening is the art of love and appreciation. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. - James Thurber

Let's be happy and forget all about art and politics! - Marty Rubin

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them. - Amit Kalantri

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have. - Louis I. Kahn

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one - Stella Adler

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. - W. Somerset Maugham

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man. - Ralph J. Smith

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal - Kate Taylor

Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism. - C.L.R. James

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. - Paul Valery

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience. - Unarine Ramaru

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft. - O'Brien Browne

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. - Marty Rubin

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

The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo. - William Blake

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. - Eric Hoffer

Earth without art is just eh. - Mysterious Anonymous and Unknown

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. - Shannon L. Alder

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about - Sondra Faye

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect. - Ann Marie Frohoff

There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk - Susan Pace-Koch

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. - Aristotle

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? - William Hart Coleridge

Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary. - Henry Johnson Jr

The art of conversation lies in listening - Malcolm Forbes

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. - Susan Sontag

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science. - Henry Thomas Buckle

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art. - Harley King

Art is the refreshing source of existence. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Your life is your canvas. You are responsible for the beauty of your art. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island - C. B. Murphy

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own. - Piero Milani

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. - Paul Rand

For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased) - Abraham Hicks

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. - bell hooks

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. - Martin Luther

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture - Paulo Coelho

Architecture is one part science, one part craft and two parts art. - David Rutten

Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten. - Shannon L. Alder

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions. - Sun-Tzu

Your heart influences your art. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Culture is local; art, universal. - Marty Rubin

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. - Ernst Fischer

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation. - Maxim Gorky

Lo, thou, my Love, art fair;Myself have made thee so;Yea, thou art fair indeed,Wherefore thou shalt not needIn beauty to despair;For I accept thee so,For fair.[excerpt from "Christ to His Spouse"] - William Baldwin

True art comes from the anonymous self. - Maria Riike

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. - Pope John Paul II

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art. - Bruce Lee

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. - Guy de Maupassant

A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a work of art, has no need to try to be sincere; all he can do is practice his craft to the best of his ability. But once he starts making useless things, how can he not be sincere? - René Daumal

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges. - Paul Johnson

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read. - John Godfrey Saxe

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school. - Andy Paula

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

The man who practices the prophet's art is a fool; for if he happens to give an adverse answer, he makes himself disliked by those for whom he takes the omens; while if he pities and deceives those who are consulting him, he wrongs the gods.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless. - Tim Winton

Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; - U.S. Congress

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. - Ambrose Bierce

Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk. - Douglas Adams

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better. - YourLeo

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art. - Robert Schumann