QuotaBillsEvery artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster
Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo
The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James
Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde
Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay
Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb
A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum
The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps. - G K Chesterton
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury
When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt
I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi
If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg