Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. – George Jean Nathan
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. – John Tillotson
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern. – R. Buckminster Fuller
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. – Margot Fonteyn
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. – Christopher Marlowe
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. – George Jean Nathan
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. – John Ruskin
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. – Henry A. Kissinger
Land really is the best art. – Andy Warhol
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin
Patience is the art of hoping. – Luc de Clapiers
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. – Billy Sunday
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. – Herbie Hancock
The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Samuel Johnson
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. – Samuel Butler
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler
