Art Quotes: Inspiring Thoughts and Creative Musings

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

Voltaire, Writer

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"

Edgar A. Shoaff

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Art raises its head where creeds relax"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The true art of memory is the art of attention"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is lie that makes us realise truth"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need"

Will Rogers, Actor

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"Excellence 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"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Art is never finished, only abandoned"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"The art of victory is learned in defeat"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

Emil Nolde, Artist