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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food ... — Irving Stone

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Maxim Gorky

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling. — Leo Tolstoy

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening. — Mary Wigman

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up. — Victor Hugo

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee. — Stephen Crane

There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world. — Sathya Sai Baba

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art — Leonardo Da Vinci

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives. — Natasha Leggero

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. — Cornell Capa

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. — Glenn Gould

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews ... The lawyers in government are damn Jews. — Richard M. Nixon

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler. — George Bernard Shaw

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. — Oscar Wilde

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts? — William Gurnall

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. — Horace

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing. — Art Buchwald

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved — Andre Malraux

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence. — George Santayana

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. — Edwin Forrest

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. — J. A. Hadfield

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too. — Vincent Van Gogh

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics. — William Butler Yeats

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance. — Sun Tzu

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal. — Jack Kirby

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable. — Napoleon Bonaparte

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? — William Shakespeare

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is. — Gloria Steinem

Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue. — Deborah Davis

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star. — Ray Davies

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts. — Hank Williams Jr.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct. — Ovid

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art. — Harry Anderson

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident. — Jacques Monod

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. — Clyde Tombaugh

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living. — John Steinbeck

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful. — Philip K. Dick

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together. — Jacob Bronowski

The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation. — Ben Shahn

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

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart — Edvard Munch

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process. — Craig Brown

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. — Anton Seidl

I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart. — Edvard Munch

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer. — Molly Elliot Seawell

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. — Henry David Thoreau

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness. — Edouard Manet

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man. — George Rickey

I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now. — Cecilia Beaux

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural. — Philip Jose Farmer

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. — Gogen Yamaguchi

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em. — Will Rogers

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Art attests to what is inhuman in man. — Alain Badiou

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture. — James C. Snyder

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men? — Thomas Carlyle

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened. — Paracelsus

Mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. — Mark Twain

Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art ... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance — Everette Lee DeGolyer

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it. — William Blake

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. — Thomas Tredgold

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men! — William Shakespeare

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a "gift." — Andrew Loomis

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man. — Fidel Castro

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class — Charles Bukowski

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. — Albert Camus

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. — Anais Nin