The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie WieselExcellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
AristotleLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert EinsteinPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho MarxEvery savage can dance.
Jane AustenThe aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.
AristotleGod is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo PicassoI am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert EinsteinNever trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert LawrencePoetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund BurkeThe art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand, nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Alan WattsAll children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo PicassoPride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas MertonThe essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich NietzscheArt not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.
AristotleWriting is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story, rife with character and plot.
William ShatnerIt is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar WildeThe true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel JohnsonIt is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar WildeEvery child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo PicassoIn Art man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath TagoreI can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
David Herbert LawrencePhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel AdamsI think you can leave the arts superior or inferior to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler YeatsThe love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
George SantayanaAmazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Mason CooleyShe had lost the art of conversation, but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawAll who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
AristotleA great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor HugoIn the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact, to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun TzuTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander PopeHomer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
AristotleI don't like food that's too carefully arranged, it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Andy RooneyNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar WildeI wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance and affection to be art.
Kahlil GibranSculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Gertrude SteinThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnI passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson WellesI can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
Marilyn MansonHistory develops, art stands still.
E. M. ForsterThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert EinsteinI suggest that the great art belongs to all people all the time - that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
Maya AngelouDiversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm ForbesEvery production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset MaughamOne of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Gertrude SteinMen and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude SteinMany secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis BaconTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanEverything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
ConfuciusArt is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor W. AdornoI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MichelangeloThe cult of art gives pride, one never has too much of it.
Gustave FlaubertSurely 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 RilkeAn artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane AustenSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.
Kim KardashianI'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about, is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady GagaCriticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean NathanNo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria RilkeDon't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul CezanneEthics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand RussellWell 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 MarxThe enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson WellesTrue art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert EinsteinI had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel JohnsonDiplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will RogersThe critic has to educate the public, the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar WildeDesign in art is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it in the fourth dimension. That is with your blood and your bones as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert LawrenceIf we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de BalzacWhat is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de BalzacTo my mind the old masters are not art, their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. EdisonGreat art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward HopperOur country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurIt is veneer rouge aestheticism art museums new theaters etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football kindness and jazz bands.
George SantayanaArt is parasitic on life just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. TrumanEvery artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
David Herbert LawrenceThe youth of an art is like the youth of anything else its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger but we care less about it.
Samuel ButlerAdmiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich NietzscheThe isles of Greece the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung / Where grew the arts of war and peace / Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! / Eternal summer gilds them yet / But all except their sun is set.
Lord ByronArt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas MertonA good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
AristotlePolitics is the art of controlling your environment.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.
David Herbert LawrenceThe bad gains respect through imitation the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich NietzscheTrouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott FitzgeraldExcellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
AristotleThe contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Gertrude SteinWithout art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard ShawYou should treat a muse like a fairy.
Paulo CoelhoTruly fertile Music the only kind that will move us that we shall truly appreciate will be a Music conducive to Dream which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert CamusWhen thou art above measure angry bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus AureliusAn artist has no home in Europe, except in Paris.
Friedrich NietzschePhotograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose BierceWar's a brain spattering windpipe splitting art.
Lord ByronThe effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence to recreate it in the eternal.
George SantayanaThe art of motherhood involves much silent unobtrusive self-denial an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de BalzacIf art is to nourish the roots of our culture society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. KennedyFashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis BaconThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EpicurusArt is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich SchillerFreedom in art freedom in society this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor HugoThe greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
MichelangeloO Rose thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy
William BlakeThe capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation be it in art or in science.
Erich FrommMy old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
Paul McCartneyArt requires neither complaisance nor politeness, nothing but faith faith and freedom.
Gustave FlaubertI'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic there's a commercial world around it: the ballet opera any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve MartinArt is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar WildeGrowing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
Marilyn MansonThe terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador DaliArtists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave FlaubertThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Paul CezanneThe foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William BlakeI'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy LamarrArt is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.
Andre GideThe taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.
Dave BarryWithout freedom no art, art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.
Albert CamusThe difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.
William BlakeThe sole art that suits me is that which rising from unrest tends toward serenity.
Andre GideLaugh if thou art wise
Marcus AureliusEloquence n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose BierceNo doubt the artist is the child of his time, but woe to him if he is also its disciple or even its favorite.
Friedrich SchillerCaught up in life you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist in my opinion is a monstrosity something outside of nature.
Gustave FlaubertReally I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia WoolfResolve and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
Christina AguileraThe art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard ShawI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul CezanneBeing an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out giving a piece of yourself no matter in which art form in which medium.
Henry RollinsThe supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun TzuThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus AureliusLying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
Mason CooleyThe art which we may call generally art of the wayside as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives is in the best sense of the word Grotesque.
John RuskinThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William JamesNote too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
OvidWhere there is money there is no art.
William BlakeBecoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.
Drew BarrymoreThe creative act is not performed by the artist alone, the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcus AureliusThe artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset MaughamOf all lies art is the least untrue.
Gustave FlaubertWhat I've discovered is that in art as in music there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady GagaMaking money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy WarholI don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
Christina AguileraIn general the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
VoltaireNo art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John RuskinArtists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Cesare PaveseDemocracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. MenckenArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul CezanneI don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
Lady GagaThe 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 MandinoGood artists copy great artists steal.
Pablo PicassoFor the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease, he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.
AeschylusOne science only will one genius fit, so vast is art so narrow human wit.
Alexander PopeAn artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George SantayanaI believe entertainment can aspire to be art and can become art but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve MartinI am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
Emile ZolaWhat makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms their dresses their banners and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
Lord ByronYou use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard ShawNot to admire is all the art I know.
Lord ByronAll any artist can do is please themselves.
William ShatnerSome lives are highly artificial. People are sunk in fear and anxiety, mentally on one side and physically on the other they have no rest. Drugs tablets capsules and pills are produced in millions but the general health has not improved. Besides new varieties of illness have emerged and are developing fast.
Sai BabaArt is the proper task of life.
Friedrich NietzscheTrue literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down.
Isaac AsimovArt is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo PicassoI'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
Lady GagaThere is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton ChekhovWe're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Charlie Sheen[Space dedicated to creativity is the goal of artists of all kinds. Virginia Woolf lauded the] room of one's own ... You must have a room or a certain hour or so a day where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning. . . This is the place of creative incubation . . . If you have a sacred place and use it something eventually will happen.
Joseph CampbellIf language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone morals and art will deteriorate, if justice goes astray the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
ConfuciusThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave FlaubertIt's clever but is it Art?
Rudyard KiplingWere 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 PoeO had I but followed the arts!
William ShakespeareMaro you' give me nothing while you live but after death you cry then you'll give, If thou art not indeed turned arrant ass Thou know'st what I desire to come to pass
Marcus AureliusHaving been an English literary graduate I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since.
Douglas AdamsYou see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water, they will swim
Marcus AureliusSpeech is human silence is divine yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas CarlyleArt raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich NietzscheI have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Paul CezanneI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WellsLook people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
Paul McCartneyThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul CezanneThe trend in some of the contemporary movements in art but by no means all seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Edward HopperThe art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin FranklinLogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose BierceThose 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.
AristotleI think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy WarholLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
StendhalAll that we call ideal in Greek or any other art because to us it is false and visionary was to the makers of it true and existent.
John RuskinService without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.
Sai BabaArt washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo PicassoArt can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd.
William BlakeThe art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare PaveseArt for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.
Hillary ClintonThe question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Edward HopperKings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard ShawArt has the power to transform to illuminate to educate inspire and motivate.
Harvey FiersteinEverything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor W. AdornoIn its most limited sense modern art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Edward Hopper