Art Quotes

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Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy. — Robert Henri
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and… — E. J. Hughes
You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work… — Laurence Overmire
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so… — Walter J. Phillips
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. — James Whistler
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is… — Tryon Edwards
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. — William Gurnall
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. — Robert Foster Bennett
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Clarence Day
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the… — Nhat Hanh
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. — Ken Venturi
The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great. — Milton Mayer
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to… — Lou Dorfsman
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication. — Cyril Connolly
Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing,… — Kyle Cease
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth. — Unknown Author
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it… — Sun Tzu
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. — Sun Tzu
The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing. — Unknown Author

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