art quotes

• Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. (Jonathan Swift) [art]
• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. (Ambrose Bierce) [logic/art/thinking/human]
• It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? (Arthur Miller) [art/willpower/reach/age]
• History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created. (William Morris) [art/people]
• If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle. (William Morris) [art/thing/thing/books]
• I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. (William Morris) [art/more/education]
• If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them. (William Morris) [love/art/art]
• I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world? (William Morris) [love/art/love/art]
• Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. (Andre Maurois) [art/more/human]
• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. (Vladimir Nabokov) [art/society]
• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. (Pablo Picasso) [art/dust/life]
• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Pablo Picasso) [art]
• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. (Pablo Picasso) [art/truth]
• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. (William Blake) [art/beauty]
• Diplomacy... the art of restraining power. (Henry Kissinger) [diplomacy/art/power]
• "An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. (Thomas Mann) [art/language/willpower/high]
• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. (Jimmy Carter) [music/art/love/nature]
• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. ( Madonna) [art]
• It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance. (Henry James) [art/life/interest]
• Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. (John Updike) [art/gold]
• What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. (John Updike) [art/spirit]
• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. (Martin Luther) [god/art/music/treasure]
• O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. (Robert Burns) [life/art]
• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. (Theodore Dreiser) [art/human/wings]
• The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. (Hillary Clinton) [politics/art]
• Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. (Joseph Addison) [delight/art/science/application]
• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. () [art/willpower/interest/music]
• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. () [master/wisdom/art]
• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. ( Aristotle) [art/mankind/education/youth]
• 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) [more/life/art]
• 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) [excellence/art/training/virtue]

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