Art Quotes

Silence is the one great art of conversation. (William Hazlitt)
All art is an imitation of nature. View quote
Seneca
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. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
The perfection of art is to conceal art. View quote
Quintilian
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. View quote
Aristotle
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. View quote
Pythagoras
Patience is the art of hoping. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Art is never finished, only abandoned. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen. View quote
Tony Blair
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. (Marshall McLuhan)
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. View quote
Aristotle
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. View quote
Karl Kraus
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. View quote
Constantin Stanislavski
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. View quote
Helen Rowland
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. View quote
Oliver Herford
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. View quote
Sun Tzu
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)
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. View quote
William James
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. View quote
Federico Fellini
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. View quote
Susan Sontag
Politics is not a science...but an art. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
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