Art Quotes - page 2

Silence is the one great art of conversation. (William Hazlitt)
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Françoise Sagan
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Donald Knuth
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.
George R. R. Martin
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fuller
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Lafcadio Hearn
procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. (William Osler)
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Art is a jealous mistress.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
Andy Warhol
Art is science made flesh.
Jean Cocteau
Politics is the art of the next best. (Otto von Bismarck)
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx