Art Quotes: Inspiring Thoughts and Creative Musings (Page 9)

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises"

"Life is not an exact science, it is an art"

"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money"

Dave Barry, Author

"Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

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

William James, Philosopher

"I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"The 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 Blake, Poet

"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars"

William Blake, Poet

"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death"

William Blake, Poet

"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed"

William Blake, Poet

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!"

O. Henry, Writer

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