Art Quotes

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won.When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on.And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.