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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- William Shakespeare

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- Frank Lloyd Wright 		Visual Arts
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Print All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.
- Stuart Wilde 		Literary Arts
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- Oscar Wilde 		Theater
Print Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
- Oscar Wilde 		Music
Print No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde 		Literary Arts
Print The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
- Oscar Wilde 		Theater
Print Strong and convincing art has never risen from theories.
- Mary Wigman 		Dance
Print An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
- James McNeill Whistler 		Visual Arts
Print Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Dame Rebecca West 		Literary Arts
Print Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- Simone Weil 		Literary Arts
Print My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.'
- Andy Warhol 		Visual Arts
Print All creations demand greenery of spirit.
- Diana Vreeland 		Visual Arts
Print What art offers is space -- a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- John Updike 		Visual Arts
Print You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain 		Literary Arts
Print All art requires courage.
- Anne Tucker 		Visual Arts
Print Never settle for anything less than your best.
- Brian Tracy 		Visual Arts
Print The road to success is always under construction.
- Lily Tomlin 		Theater
Print Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau 		Literary Arts
Print Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
- Twyla Tharp 		Visual Arts
Print A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
- Leopold Stokowski 		Music
Print Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
- Susan Sontag 		Visual Arts
Print Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
- Simonides 		Literary Arts
Print Dancing is silent poetry.
- Simonides 		Dance
Print Art is the signature of civilizations.
- Beverly Sills 		Visual Arts
Print The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare 		Theater
Print Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare 		Theater
Print Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.
- Roger Sessions 		Music
Print There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer 		Music
Print To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann 		Music
Print Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
- George Santayana 		Music
Print Music rearranges your molecular structure.
- Carlos Santana 		Music
Print Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.
- George Sand 		Visual Arts
Print Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
- George Sand 		Visual Arts
Print Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan 		Visual Arts
Print When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin 		Visual Arts
Print Collecting art is like a drug. It is both intensely pleasurable and highly addictive.
- Norman Rosenthal 		Visual Arts
Print I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.
- James Rosenquist 		Visual Arts
Print Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
- Wynetka Ann Reynolds 		Theater
Print A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
- Joshua Reynolds 		Visual Arts
Print Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
- Rembrandt 		Visual Arts
Print The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
- Robert Rauschenberg 		Visual Arts
Print There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
- Pythagoras 		Music
Print The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust 		Visual Arts
Print It’s all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen.
- Jackson Pollock 		Visual Arts
Print The painting has a life of its own.
- Jackson Pollock 		Visual Arts
Print Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
- Plutarch 		Music
Print To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated.
- Plato 		Music
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