Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. Frederic Chopin
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Ansel Adams
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. Charles de Lint
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. Andre Gide
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Alice Walker
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. David Hockney
The art of creation is older than the art of killing. Edward Koch
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. Eric Hoffer
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. Will Durant
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. George Santayana
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. Edward Hopper
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. Henry James
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. Rita Mae Brown
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. Helen Rowland
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. Mason Cooley
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. William Hazlitt