Art Quotes - page 5

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. (Henry Hazlitt)
Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. View quote
Jacques Barzun
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. View quote
Alvar Aalto
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. View quote
Joseph Conrad
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. View quote
Tony Blair
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. View quote
Henry Flynt
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let each man exercise the art he knows. (Aristophanes)
The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. View quote
Albert Ellis
Art is running away without ever leaving home. View quote
Twyla Tharp
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. View quote
John Updike
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. View quote
John Updike
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. View quote
Rockwell Kent
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. View quote
William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. View quote
William Hazlitt
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. View quote
Colin Powell
An art book is a museum without walls. View quote
André Malraux
One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say. View quote
André Malraux
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser