| "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." »Pablo Picasso |
| "abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp |
| "On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light." »Freya Stark |
| "CHRIS What's art, Holling Is a Davinci art Dada art If you wrap up the whole Reichstag in toilet paper, is that art HOLLING Well, I can't give you a complete definition, but I think it would be something Maurice would be willing to give good money for. CHRIS Yeah, well, you're starting to scare me cause if that's art, then I got to get a whole new gig." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in art for art's sake." »E. M. Forster |
| "There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete." »Helen Keller |
| "I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich |
| "There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger |
| "art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life." »Margaret Fuller |
| "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." »Anatole France |
| "The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it." »Paul Klee |
| "The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one." »J. Russel Lynes |
| "Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." »Albert Camus |
| "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." »Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." »Elain Heffner |
| "Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do." »Elizabeth Bowen |
| "The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor |
| "An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea." »Leland Stowe |
| "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." »William James |
| "The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." »Albert Ellis |
| "There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky |
| "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." »Lin Yutang |
| "The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others." »Wilfred A. Peterson |
| "'art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game." »Octavio Paz |
| "I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" »Igor Stravinsky |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
