Art quotes

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

All art is quite useless.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.