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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Pablo Picasso
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”
Hillary Clinton
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
Michelangelo
“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”
Michelangelo
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
William Blake
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Jonathan Swift
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
Andy Warhol
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Walt Whitman
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John William Gardner
“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.”
Harvey Fierstein
“The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.”
Anthony Hopkins
“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
Samuel Butler
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
Paul Cezanne
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
Albert Ellis
“History develops, art stands still.”
Edward Morgan Forster
“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Anatole France
“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”
Henry Kissinger
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Thomas Merton
“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”
Carroll O Connor
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
Plutarch
“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”
Hunter Stockton Thompson
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
Sun Tzu
“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”
Mae West
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”
Amy Lowell
