Art Quotes

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

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.

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.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

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

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.

Space is the breath of art.

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

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.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.