Art Quotes - page 2

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. (Mae West)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. View quote
Lin Yutang
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. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. View quote
Henry Kissinger
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. View quote
Françoise Sagan
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. View quote
Donald Knuth
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. View quote
George R. R. Martin
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Any idealism is a proper subject for art. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. View quote
Don Marquis
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. View quote
William Osler
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. View quote
Scott Adams
Art is a jealous mistress. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. (Pablo Picasso)
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. View quote
Pablo Picasso
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all. View quote
Andy Warhol
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