"Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery." - Amit Ray from the book Meditation.
– Amit Ray
'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
– Octavio Paz
'Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.'
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
– John W.N. Sullivan
...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
– Albert Einstein
A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivaled heights.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
– Ludwig Erhard
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
– George Bernard Shaw
A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'
– Alan Marshall Beck
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
– Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
– George Santayana
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
– Dwight D Eisenhower
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
– Casey Stengel
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
– Al Capp
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
– Aldous Huxley
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
– Sir Ralph Richardson
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
– Rmy de Gourmont
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All art is an imitation of nature.
– Seneca
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
All art is but imitation of nature.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
