Art quotes

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.