Art Quotes

“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.”

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”

-- Stendhal

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

-- Pablo Picasso

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

-- Winston Churchill

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

-- H. L. Mencken

“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.”

-- Maria Callas

“Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”

-- Albert Camus

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

-- William Wordsworth

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”

-- Marcus Aurelius