1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
Marilyn Manson

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt Disney

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer

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

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa