Art Quotes

“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”

-- Laura Riding

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

-- John Ruskin

“I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.”

-- Elia Kazan

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

-- Henry Miller

“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”

-- Cesare Pavese

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

-- Henry Ward Beecher

“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.”

-- Jon Bon Jovi

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

-- William Blake

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”

-- James Humes

“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”

-- William Ralph Inge