Art quotes

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.