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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift on art

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
Mason Cooley on art

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne on art

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire on art

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler on art

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana on art

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
Tony Hawk on art

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on art

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Stendhal on art

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats on art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes on art

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas Huxley on art

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox on art

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
Carmen Electra on art

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau on art

All good art is an indiscretion.
Tennessee Williams on art

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on art

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin on art

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 on art

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell on art