Art Quotes
“Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.”
“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
-- Isadora Duncan
“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”
-- Charles de Lint
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher
“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
-- W. H. Auden