Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. – H. L. Mencken
When you create art, the world has to wait. – Will Smith
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. – Nelson Mandela
To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job. – Simone de Beauvoir
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. – Plato
He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. – Laurence J. Peter
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. – Martin Luther
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. – Pablo Picasso
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. – Leonardo da Vinci
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. – Leonardo da Vinci
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. – Karl Marx
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. – Morihei Ueshiba