Art Quotes

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The art of life is to show your hand.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.