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Famous Art Quotes

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Albert Einstein

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational Art Quotes

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Short Art Quotes

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Mohandas Gandhi

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

More Art Quotes

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

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

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

David Herbert Lawrence

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

William Hazlitt

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire

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

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

David Herbert Lawrence

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Friedrich Schiller

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Marilyn vos Savant

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Jock Sturges

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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