Art Quotes

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Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening… — Rajneesh
Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music,… — Rajneesh
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? — Thomas a Kempis
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true… — David Hume
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the… — Ezra Pound
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — Aristotle
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. — Elizabeth Bishop
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. — Chuck Jones
Art made tongue-tied by authority. — William Shakespeare
The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness,… — Wilferd Peterson
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. — Thomas Jefferson
Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. — John Ruskin
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. — Robert Mapplethorpe
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art. — Henry Moore
With age, art and life become one. — Georges Braque
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or… — Freya Stark
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every… — William Morris Hunt
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. — Lawren Harris
Painting is by nature a luminous language. — Robert Delaunay
I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't. — Roy Lichtenstein
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of… — Leonardo da Vinci
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working. — Henri Matisse

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