Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. – Frank Zappa
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. – Ann Landers
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. – William Blake
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. – Andy Warhol
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. – Aldous Huxley
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. – Ansel Adams
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. – Ulysses S. Grant
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. – Aldous Huxley
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. – Pablo Picasso
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. – William Hazlitt
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. – Morihei Ueshiba
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. – Victor Hugo
To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. – Thomas A. Edison
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm
