Quotes about art

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Will Durant

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Winston Churchill

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he’s doing – I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

LL Cool J

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

Dale Carnegie

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can’t explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

Deepak Chopra

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing.

Søren Kierkegaard

In art, practice always comes before theory.

Pablo Picasso

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Maya Angelou

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe