Art Quotes

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.

Excellence 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.

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Books are not men, and yet they stay alive.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Every savage can dance.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.

God 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.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.