Art Quotes

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It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is art? Prostitution. — Charles Baudelaire
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. — Michel de Montaigne
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing… — Washington Irving
To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it. — Mark Twain
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. — William Hazlitt
An art thief is a man who takes pictures. — George Carlin
The art of life is to show your hand. — E. V. Lucas
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true art of memory is the art of attention. — Samuel Johnson
However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a… — Martin Luther
Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in… — Albert Einstein
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in… — Charles Darwin
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. — Thomas Carlyle
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least… — Charles Caleb Colton
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the… — Walt Whitman
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images… — Clement of Alexandria
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you… — Clement of Alexandria
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who… — Tertullian
Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art. — Richard Aldington
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation. — Pietro Aretino
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so… — Jonas Salk

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