Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
