Best 100 Art Quotes | Quotes On Art, art of living quotes

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. -Andy Warhol

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. -Aldous Huxley

Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. -Victor Hugo

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. -William Blake

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life. -Marcus Aurelius

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. -Henry Ward Beecher

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. -Ann Landers

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. -Robert Louis Stevenson

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. -Morihei Ueshiba

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. -Paul Hawken

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. -Leo Tolstoy

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. -Karl Marx

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’ -Friedrich Nietzsche

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. -Marcus Aurelius(Art quotes)

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’ -Edgar Allan Poe

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. -Friedrich Nietzsche

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -Aristotle

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

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. -Groucho Marx

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

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -Aristotle

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. -John W. Gardner

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. -Aristotle

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

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

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. -Leonardo da Vinci