No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
– Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
– Ingrid Bergman
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
– Bernard Berenson
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
– George Santayana
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.
– Pietro Aretino
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
– Aeschylus
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo
– William Shakespeare
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
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
One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.
– Yvette Gilbert, (1865-1944)
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
– Gustave Flaubert
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
– Oscar Wilde
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
– Franklin P. Jones
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
– Laurence J. Peter
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
– Charles Horton Cooley
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.
– E.C. Stedman
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
– J. K. Galbraith
Politics is the art of anesthesia.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
– Julius Henry Marx
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
– Ernest Benn
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
– Paul Valéry
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
– Paul Valery
