3 December 2020 Edgard Varese An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
3 December 2020 Jackson Pollock The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
3 December 2020 Remy de Gourmont Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
3 December 2020 Auguste Rodin Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
3 December 2020 Edgar Degas Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
3 December 2020 Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.
3 December 2020 Helen Rowland A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
3 December 2020 David Foster Wallace The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, ‘then’ what do we do?
3 December 2020 Fran Lebowitz Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
3 December 2020 Saint Augustine Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
