Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
—Pablo Picasso
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
—Michelangelo
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
—Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
—Pablo Picasso
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
—Vincent Van Gogh
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
—Pablo Picasso
I say to the universe, Mighty One! thou art not my mother. Return to chaos if thou wilt. I shall still exist. I live.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
—Sun Tzu
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
—Søren Kierkegaard
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle–what joy, then, would you have in it?
—Søren Kierkegaard
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
—Thomas Jefferson
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
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure our distempers as the whole art of medicine.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Art is the proper task of life.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
All art is erotic.
—Pablo Picasso
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.
—Blaise Pascal
Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
—Georg Hegel
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
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
—Pablo Picasso
When people marvel at Shakespeare or Beethoven, they’re really marveling at their own thoughts and dreams, which the artist has evoked.
—Leo Tolstoy
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
—Albert Einstein
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
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
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
—Plato
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
—Aristotle