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

I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment. -Walt Disney

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. -Arthur Schopenhauer

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. -Leonardo da Vinci

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. -Pablo Picasso

I think art is the only thing that’s spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people’s interpretations of God. I don’t think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. -Marilyn Manson

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. -Laurence J. Peter

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. -Martin Luther

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

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

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. -Pablo Picasso

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. -Samuel Butler

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. -Pablo Picasso

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

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. -Henri Matisse

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

All in the Family was intellectual it was art. -Carroll O’Connor

(Art quotes)The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. -Og Mandino

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television. -Woody Allen

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. -Pablo Picasso

we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. -Paulo Coelho

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. -Bertrand Russell

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call. -Sylvia Plath

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. -Pablo Picasso

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth. -Charlie Chaplin

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. -Erich Fromm

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

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. -Thomas A. Edison

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs. -Pablo Picasso

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. -Franz Liszt

The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. -Paul Strand

Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies. -Anish Kapoor

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. -Oscar Wilde

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -George Bernard Shaw

All art is quite useless. -Oscar Wilde

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. -George Edward Moore

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. -Socrates

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. -Martin Luther

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. -John Wooden

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -C. S. Lewis

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. -Oscar Wilde

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. -Havelock Ellis

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. -Martin Luther King, Jr.