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

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

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

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Art raises its head where creeds relax"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Samuel Johnson, Author

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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

William James, Philosopher

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

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

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

Andre Gide, Novelist

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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

"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

"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

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"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

"We have art in order not to die of the truth"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"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

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

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

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

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

Jim Morrison, Musician

"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

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

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"The art of victory is learned in defeat"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship"

John Grierson, Director

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them"

Elliott Erwitt, Photographer

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