When there are no passions, there is no art…
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
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
Works of art should be composed in memory of the dead and in the name of the unborn.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
“In 1962, when I set up our office, I put seven items on the wall. Our art budget was $7, and I went down to the library, and for a dollar each I made photo copies of the pages from financial history…”
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
Who wants to be a great artist, he should not dirty himself.
“Behold our Lord and Master with divinely skilful art seeking after a single soul!”
The Christian relaxes in the temperate use of all the gifts of Providence. Imagination, and taste, and genius, and the beauties of creation, and the works of art, lie open to him.
—William Wilberforce
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
—Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
—Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
—Sun Tzu
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
—Pablo Picasso
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
—Voltaire
True art seems artless.
—Laozi
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
—Pablo Picasso
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
—Pablo Picasso
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
—Pablo Picasso
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
—Sun Tzu
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
—John Milton
The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things
—Miyamoto Musashi
Education is the art of making man ethical
—Georg Hegel
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
—Pablo Picasso
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
—Pablo Picasso
The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; only the sculptor’s hand can break the spell to free the figures.
—Michelangelo
Every artists wants to be applauded.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau