Quotes about art

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

Oscar Wilde

A timid trapeze artist is a dead trapeze artist.

Seth Godin

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you’re releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

Gloria Estefan

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

Napoleon

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Willie Nelson

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

William Shakespeare

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

William James

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Colin Powell

Never argue with an artist.

Albert Einstein