Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?' Rudyard Kipling
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
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
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Honore de Balzac
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. Salvador Dali
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. Blaise Pascal
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. Steve Prefontaine
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. Lord Chesterfield
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. Malcolm Muggeridge
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. Saint Augustine
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. John Ruskin
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Walt Whitman