Art Quote by James Whistler

Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts…

— James Whistler

A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw…

— Ben Jonson

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on…

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a…

— Jean de La Fontaine

“A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its order…

— Nancy Goldstone

“Just as artists who draw landscapes get down in the valley to study the mountains and go up to the mountains to look down…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Let no man marvel if in what I am about to say concerning Princedoms wholly new, both as regards the Prince and the form…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended,…

— Robert Christgau