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.

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.

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

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

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

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

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

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

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

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.

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

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.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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

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

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

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.

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

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

Art is the flower… life the green leaf.

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

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

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

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.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

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

There is no art when one does something without intention.

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