Art quotes

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.