Art

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Socrates

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. – Martin Luther

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless. – Oscar Wilde

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. – Khalil Gibran

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. – John F. Kennedy

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. – Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. – Eugene Ionesco

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. – Benjamin Franklin

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. – Voltaire

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. – Jim Morrison

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. – Aristotle

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle