Art quotes

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is born of humiliation.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

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

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.