Art Quotes

Small: It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge
Albert Einstein
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Small: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science
Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Small: In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects
Rabindranath Tagore
"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
Small: Space is the breath of art
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Space is the breath of art"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person
Abraham Lincoln
"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person"
Abraham Lincoln, President
Small: Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men
Plato
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men"
Plato, Philosopher
Small: My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art
Jimi Hendrix
"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art"
Jimi Hendrix, Musician
Small: Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them lif
Aristotle
"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, Philosopher
Small: Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully
Aristotle
"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Small: Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for thi
Aristotle
"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Small: The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil
Pythagoras
"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
Small: A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession
Albert Camus
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Small: Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others
Albert Camus
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Small: Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic
Ambrose Bierce
"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
Small: Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the hum
Ambrose Bierce
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
Small: Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes th
Ambrose Bierce
"Eloquence, 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 Bierce, Journalist
Small: Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on
Robert Frost
"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on"
Robert Frost, Poet
Small: The course of Nature is the art of God
Edward Young
"The course of Nature is the art of God"
Edward Young, Poet
Small: If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail
Seneca the Younger
"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
Small: The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls
Pablo Picasso
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life
Pablo Picasso
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any ca
Pablo Picasso
"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, Artist
Small: Art is a lie that makes us realize truth
Pablo Picasso
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is gi
Pablo Picasso
"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, Artist
Small: There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality
Pablo Picasso
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: Sculpture is the art of the intelligence
Pablo Picasso
"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse
Winston Churchill
"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
Small: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the
Groucho Marx
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
Small: Well, Art is Art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if
Groucho Marx
"Well, 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 Marx, Comedian
Small: Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all liv
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
Small: Art is the daughter of freedom
Friedrich Schiller
"Art is the daughter of freedom"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Small: Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men
Friedrich Schiller
"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Small: The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art
George Santayana
"The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art"
George Santayana, Philosopher
Small: The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal
George Santayana
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal"
George Santayana, Philosopher
Small: It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things
George Santayana
"It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands"
George Santayana, Philosopher
Small: My trade and art is to live
Michel de Montaigne
"My trade and art is to live"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Small: Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed
Kahlil Gibran
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
Small: I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be
Kahlil Gibran
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
Small: Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go ne
Confucius
"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods"
Confucius, Philosopher
Small: The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing
Marcus Aurelius
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier