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!
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
– Captain J. A. Hadfield
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
– Victoria Lincoln
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
– Izaak Walton
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
– John Stuart Mill
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
– Aristotle
