Best Art Quotes

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

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

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Everything you can imagine is real.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work, the pride that makes business an art.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Art is the flower… life the green leaf.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

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

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

I’m inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

Architecture is man’sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art is great life.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.