We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. – Paulo Coelho
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. – Bertrand Russell
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. – Og Mandino
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. – Pablo Picasso
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. – Henri Matisse
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. – John Ruskin
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. – Pablo Picasso
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. – Samuel Butler
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. – Emmet Fox
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. – Rainer Maria Rilke
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. – Orson Welles
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. – Marcel Proust
Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same. – T. S. Eliot
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. – Henry Rollins
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. – Hillary Clinton
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. – Pablo Picasso
