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One eye sees, the other feels.

Paul Klee

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Stephen Sondheim

Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

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 F. Kennedy

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Edward Moore

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia E. Butler

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Khalil Gibran

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Corita Kent

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Henry Kissinger

The best artists know what to leave out.

Charles de Lint

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Ernest Benn

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Hunter S. Thompson

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia E. Butler

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.

Alvar Aalto

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Francis Bacon

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Arthur Erickson

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Adolf Loos

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

History develops, art stands still.

E. M. Forster

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Paracelsus

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Le Corbusier

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Louise Brooks

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Unknown

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

Brian De Palma

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Miguel de Unamuno

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Patience is the art of hoping.

Luc de Clapiers

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Arnold Palmer

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Maya Lin

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Guy Kawasaki

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Walt Disney

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Paulo Coelho

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Michelangelo

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Sydney Pollack

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Federico Fellini

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

John W. Gardner

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Albert Camus

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

George Edward Moore

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

E. M. Forster

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden

Art is I; science is we.

Claude Bernard

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adler

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

William Cullen Bryant

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Eugene Ionesco

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Will Durant

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

Ashton Kutcher

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

Jacques Chirac

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Elbert Hubbard

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Terri Windling

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Georges Braque

Space is the breath of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Ansel Adams

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Julia Morgan

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Sandy Koufax

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair