Quotes about art

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Cicero

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

Albert Einstein

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

George Bernard Shaw

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Plato

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Viktor Frankl

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

Terry Crews

To become masters of love, we have to practice love. The art of relationship is also a whole mastery, and the only way to reach mastery is with practice.

Don Miguel Ruiz

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

Arnold Palmer