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For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
— Elizabeth Inchbald
I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.
— Stefan Bachmann
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
— Edward Hopper
Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
— Guy Davenport
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
— Sophie Swetchine
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
— Pete Seeger
The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.
— Carlo Blasis
My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life ... 2 things you need ... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.
— Carlos Barrios
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
— Art Linkletter
The true artist can only labor con amore.
— Victor Hugo
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
— Jacques Chirac
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
— Peter Max
Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.
— Saul Williams
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
— Toni Morrison
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
— Gloria Steinem
Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.
— Stella McCartney
I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.
— Molly Crabapple
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.
— Nathan Sawaya
The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.
— Richard Wilbur
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
— Frank Stella
If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.
— Eric Samuel Timm
To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.
— Paul Valery
In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
— Victor Hugo
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
— Walter Lippmann
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
— Duane Michals
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.
— Christian Michael
I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.
— Claire Bloom
Art is the highest form of hope.
— Gerhard Richter
Keep your life as simple as possible. That leaves room for the impossible to become possible.
— Art Hochberg
Deception is the art of war.
— James Patterson
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
— Paul Emsley
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
— Julian Assange
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.
— Sophie Calle
Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.
— David Alfaro Siqueiros
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
— Charles Baudelaire
Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.
— Alain De Botton
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
— Arsene Wenger
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
— John Dryden
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
— Rita Mae Brown
Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!
— Morrissey
I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.
— Grant Morrison
Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.
— Shannon L. Alder
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
— Jeff Koons
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
— Andy Goldsworthy
For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
— Josh Groban
The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight
— Joshua Teya
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
— Charles Baudelaire
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
— Maria Montessori
The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
— Norman McLaren
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
— David Mamet
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
— Susan Sontag
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
— Tom Robbins
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
— Jackson Pollock
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
— Frank Horvat
Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The object of art is to give life shape.
— Jean Anouilh
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
— Ludwig Von Mises
I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
— Art Garfunkel
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
— Leslie Fiedler
Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature?
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.
— Ruth Ozeki
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
— Robertson Davies
Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
— Anne Sexton
The war brought out all the art in me.
— Horace Pippin
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow