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Art Quotes by Maya Angelou
- Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love…
- I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we…
- When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It…
- In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife…
- Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other…
- We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre…
- Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
- When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we…
- Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that…
- You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
- Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we…
- I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the…
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