Art Quotes

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
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… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden
Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can… — Wystan Hugh Auden
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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