Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. – Walter Winchell
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. – Isaac Newton
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. – Frederic Chopin
Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. – Ansel Adams
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith
The art of creation is older than the art of killing. – Edward Koch
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. – Eric Hoffer
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. – George Santayana
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. – Edward Hopper
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. – Helen Rowland
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. – Mason Cooley
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno
