Quotes about art

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

Henry David Thoreau

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Benjamin Disraeli

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Lady Gaga

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Thomas Aquinas

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Seth Godin

The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up.

Aristotle

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

Seth Godin

The first way to lose a state is to neglect the art of war; the first way to gain a state is to be skilled in the art of war.

Niccolo Machiavelli