The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
– James Baldwin
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
– Dorothy Nevill
The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.
– Tom Carter
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
– Oscar Wilde
The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.
– Jean Anouilh
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
– Michelangelo Buonarroti
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The universe has no mind and that’s why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
– Heinrich Heine
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 work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
– Auguste Renoir
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
– Pablo Picasso
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
– Oswald Mosley
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
– Jim Davis
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.
– Franz Kafka
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
– Benjamin Disraeli
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all
– William Hart Coleridge
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
– William Osler
There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!
There is nothing more becoming a wise man than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art. Let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors; shunning always such as are poor and needy, for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.
– Sir W Raleigh, to his Son
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!
