The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Ambrose Bierce

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Ambrose Bierce

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Ellen Key

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Cats are the masters of relaxation and can teach us the art of taking it easy.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

Nature's landscapes are like works of art that leave us in awe and wonder.

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

Will Rogers

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Francis Bacon

The art of living lies in mastering the balance between chasing dreams and finding contentment in the moment—a harmony that brings lasting peace.

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

Albert Einstein

Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.

John Donne

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

Michelangelo

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

William Blake

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

Robert Browning

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Resolve and thou art free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Victor Hugo

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde