What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. – Steve Martin
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. – Malcolm Forbes
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt
All nature is but art unknown to thee. – Alexander Pope
My trade and art is to live. – Michel de Montaigne
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. – Mason Cooley
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. – Paul Cezanne
Space is the breath of art. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see. – Paul Klee
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. – Thomas Fuller
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. – Thomas Fuller
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. – Simone de Beauvoir
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. – Simone Weil
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. – E. M. Forster
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. – Theodor Adorno
