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Art Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
- No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
- One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
- The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we…
- If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a…
- Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced…
- Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
- A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily…
- Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds…
- In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
- A good half of the art of living is resilience.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov