Art quotes

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

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.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.

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.