art quotes

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.”

— Harvey Fierstein

“The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.”

— Anthony Hopkins

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

— Paul Cezanne

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”

— Albert Ellis

“History develops, art stands still.”

— Edward Morgan Forster

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

— Anatole France

“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”

— Henry Kissinger

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton

“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”

— Carroll O Connor

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

“An art book is a museum without walls.”

— Andre Malraux

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.”

— George Edward Moore

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”

— George Edward Moore

“Art is the daughter of freedom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”

— Auguste Rodin

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

— Anatole France

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