I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way. – Lady Gaga
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. – Honore de Balzac
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. – Lord Byron
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. – William Blake
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. – Walter Hagen
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement. – Horace
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world. – Sri Chinmoy
There is nothing new in art except talent. – Anton Chekhov
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin
What is art? Nature concentrated. – Honore de Balzac
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. – Thom Yorke
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. – Thomas Browne
History develops, art stands still. – E. M. Forster
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. – Salvador Dali
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy. – Akhenaton
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. – Harvey Fierstein
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller
