Art quotes

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

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

It's clever, but is it Art?

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

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

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Patience is the art of hoping.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.