Quotes about Art
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.
- Cicero
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
- Samuel Beckett
The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.
- Donald Justice
Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
- Mary Baker Eddy
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
- Cicero
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
- Charles Dickens
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
- Walt Disney
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
- George Bernard Shaw
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
- Madeleine L'Engle