True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
No work of art can compare to a city.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.