Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
– John Ruskin
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
– James Thurber
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
– Billie Joe
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
– Michael Palin
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
– Dame Edith Sitwell
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
– Michel de Montaigne
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
– Charles Rosin
I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
– Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
– Walt Whitman
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
– Kahlil Gibran
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so
– Unknown
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
– John Lennon
If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.
If I could master the art of appearing confident, if I could convincingly pretend to know what I'm talking about when I don't, I'd be rich by now. Very important skill, bullshitting.
– Tami Cohen
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
– Confucius
If thou art a man, speak not much about thine own manliness, for not every champion driveth the ball to the goal.
– Sa?di
If you are a real perfectionist, you can’t finish any job! We, the mortals, we don’t have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!
If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!
If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.
– Andrew Schneider
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
– Elizabeth Bowen
In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.
– Goethe
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
– Paul Gauguin
