Art

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

William Wordsworth

In art the best is good enough.

In art the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Leonardo da Vinci

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul Richter

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.