Famous Quotes
- Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
- William Wordsworth on Art
- Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Art
- Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
- Horace Walpole on Art
- Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
- Thomas Hardy on Art
- Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
- Edmund Burke on Art
- Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- Samuel Johnson on Art
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Art
- Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Art
- Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
- Hunter S. Thompson on Art
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
- Groucho Marx on Art
- Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
- Paul Valery on Art
- Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis on Art
- Progressive 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 intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
- Salvador Dali on Art
- Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
- Bruno Bettelheim on Art
- Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
- Arthur Erickson on Art
- Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
- Edwin Louis Cole on Art
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
- Noam Chomsky on Art
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- Virginia Woolf on Art
- Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
- Austin O'Malley on Art
- Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Art
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Edmund Burke on Art
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Art
- Resolve and thou art free.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Art
- Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
- Valentino Rossi on Art
- Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
- Billy Idol on Art
- Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
- Camille Paglia on Art
- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- William Hazlitt on Art
- Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
- Ray Bradbury on Art
- Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
- Karl Kraus on Art
- Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
- Martha Beck on Art
- Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
- David Hockney on Art
- She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw on Art
- Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Art
- Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
- Frederic Chopin on Art
- Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Art
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
- Tom Stoppard on Art
- Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
- Tyra Banks on Art
- So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
- William Morris on Art
- So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Art
- So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- Alexander Pope on Art
- Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Octavia Butler on Art
- Space is the breath of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Art
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