Art Quotes

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Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we… — Shirley MacLaine
Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once… — Charles Spurgeon
Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better. — John Bunyan
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same… — Thomas Adams
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of… — Charles Babbage
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it… — Morris Kline
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. — Malcolm Mclaren
Life is the art of being well deceived. — William Hazlitt
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. — Mason Cooley
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. — Joseph Conrad
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. — Andy Goldsworthy
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. — Daniel Pinkwater
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently. — Eugene Delacroix
The artist is the antenna of the race. — Ezra Pound
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we… — Frank Lloyd Wright
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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