Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 1967
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein German Physicist More Albert Einstein Quotes 58
Pictures must not be too picturesque. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 57
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 56
In art the best is good enough. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 10
Art is anything you can get away with. Marshall McLuhan Canadian Sociologist More Marshall McLuhan Quotes 8
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 American Writer More Helen Rowland Quotes 8
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. Marcus Aurelius Roman Emperor More Marcus Aurelius Quotes 7
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 7
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana American Philosopher More George Santayana Quotes 7
You don't take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 6
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 6
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 6
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton English Writer More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes 6
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce American Journalist More Ambrose Bierce Quotes 5
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 5
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno German Philosopher More Theodor Adorno Quotes 5
My trade and art is to live. Michel de Montaigne French Philosopher More Michel de Montaigne Quotes 5
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. Henry Miller American Author More Henry Miller Quotes 5
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. Mason Cooley American Writer More Mason Cooley Quotes 4
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. John Updike American Novelist More John Updike Quotes 4
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 4