Quotes on Art

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.