Home » Art Art 1 I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! Victor Hugo Art, Myself, Soul Add to Collection 2 When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. Victor Hugo Art, Age, Man Add to Collection 3 Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. Victor Hugo Nature, Beauty, Art Add to Collection 4 Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. Victor Hugo Art, Freedom, Society Add to Collection 5 The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Martin Luther King, Jr Art, Acceptance, Small Add to Collection 6 Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Martin Luther King, Jr Art, Man, Spiritual Add to Collection 7 I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. Willie Nelson Art, Poverty, Think Add to Collection 8 A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. Willie Nelson Music, Art, Sad Add to Collection 9 Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. William Wordsworth Art, Walls, Pictures Add to Collection 10 The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James Wisdom, Art, Wise Add to Collection 11 I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. William Butler Yeats Art, Think Add to Collection 12 He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. William Blake Art, Science, Good Add to Collection 13 The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. William Blake Art, Science, Foundation Add to Collection 14 Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake Life, Art, Death Add to Collection 15 Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. William Blake Beauty, Art, Naked Add to Collection 16 When you create art, the world has to wait. Will Smith Art, World, Wait Add to Collection 17 Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. Isabel Allende Art, Writing, Job Add to Collection 18 My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art. Isabel Allende Art, Mother, Great Add to Collection 19 Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. Isaac Newton Art, Errors Add to Collection 20 Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton Art, Enemy, Point Add to Collection 21 The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. Ulysses S. Grant Art, Moving On, War Add to Collection 22 Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. Will Rogers Art, Saying, Rock Add to Collection 23 Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. Will Rogers Art, Money, Advertising Add to Collection 24 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 Art, Past, Democracy Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 next › last »
