Art Wisdom Quotes

#1. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.

Andrew Ramer

#2. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

#3. To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

A.W. Tozer

#4. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.

Ashutosh Gupta

#5. We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of
real story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life instruction" it brings - we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art!

Derek Rydall

#6. Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don't make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare.

Donald Goines

#7. If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.

Ivor Bulmer-Thomas

#8. In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Thomas Huxley

#9. I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

Mos Def

#10. The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.

Nikki Rowe

#11. Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.

Thomas Huynh

#13. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker

#14. He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries.
For medicine is an eternal quest for reasons - causes that explain effects.
Science cannot comprehend a miracle.

Erich Segal

#15. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.

Cornel West

#16. Random thoughts that fly away.
Where words has no place to stay.
Let it be right where they are.
Let the work of art preserve its life.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#17. David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for the seasoned storyteller. If you are a writer, it should be on your desk.

Jacqueline Winspear

#18. Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

Ozzie Zehner

#20. For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

John Calvin

#21. Life is a giant canvas and an elusive art.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Thou art the same: 'tis I whose wretched soul Takes discontent to be its paramour, And gives its kingdom to the rude control Of what should be its servitor, - for sure Wisdom is somewhere, though the stormy sea Contain it not, and the huge deep answer 'Tis not in me.' To

Oscar Wilde

#23. As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.

Hermann Hesse

#24. Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art

Gary Hopkins

#25. Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.

Sandy Smith

#26. The phrase "I dont know" is the most honest thing anyone could ever say.

Markus W. Lunner

#27. All we are doing are self-portraits. As simple that. We accumulate knowledge and wisdom and power, and we get our hearts broken, and we write. We write for others to absorb what took us so long to understand.

Cristian Mihai

#28. I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

Marilyn Manson

#29. To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Barry Hughart

#30. Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

W. Somerset Maugham

#31. Knowledge is an intellectual art.
Wisdom is a spiritual discipline.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

Immanuel Kant

#33. When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.

Herophilus

#34. An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

Al-Farabi

#35. The art of being wise is to respond to everything with kindness and love.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart.
I am in love with the universe and I praise nature's art.

Debasish Mridha

#37. What you see is what you see

Frank Stella

#38. All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

Marshall McLuhan

#39. The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#40. Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.

Simon Greenleaf

#41. Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Eugene H. Peterson

#42. In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

Dejan Stojanovic

#43. Relationships are set up to be imperfect. They are designed by the master creator of relationships to be flawed, to be forever inadequate, and to be a work of art.

Julieanne O'Connor

#44. True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.

Lao-Tzu

#45. All life is an art of yourself, so draw it carefully to make it the best.

Debasish Mridha

#46. Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Hermann Hesse

#47. Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. 'Learning' will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

Austin Osman Spare

#48. My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.

Julia Glass

#49. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

Ayn Rand

#50. If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#51. We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

Dejan Stojanovic

#52. What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Thomas Browne

#53. Memory, prophecy, and fantasy - The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between - Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

Clive Barker

#54. It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#55. Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Hans J. Morgenthau

#56. The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

Carole Maso

#57. The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

Roger Rosenblatt

#58. Cling not to one mood,
And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong.
For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him,
That he alone can speak or think alright,
Such oracles are empty breath when tried.
The wisest man will let himself be swayed
By other's wisdom and relax in time.

Sophocles

#59. All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Richard Schmid

#60. The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

Russell Sherman

#61. As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

Clive James

#62. Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

#63. HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS) ... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.

Afrika Bambaataa

#64. The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrifices my Mom made for me.

Forrest Curran

#65. The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.

Pearl Zhu

#66. Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Karl Lagerfeld

#67. Psychotherapy is an art enlightened by wisdom, theory and research.

Barbara Temaner Brodley

#68. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Karl Lagerfeld

#69. Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

Elbert Hubbard

#70. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.

Henry Miller

#71. O God, the Eternal All, help me to know that all things are shadows, but Thou art substance, all things are quicksands, but Thou art mountain, all things are shifting, but Thou art anchor, all things are ignorance, but Thou art wisdom.

Anonymous

#72. Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

Pearl Zhu

#73. Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Ruth St. Denis

#74. Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

Pearl Zhu

#75. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

William James

#76. As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.

Anna Halprin

#77. We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both.

Karl Lagerfeld

#78. Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#79. Don't be cool. Like everything.

Shaky Kane

#80. I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

Georg Baselitz

#81. Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Aberjhani

#82. Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

William Wordsworth

#83. Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation.

Debasish Mridha

#84. Style is art and fashion is everything. Personal expression should reflect the best of who you are and respected without being misunderstood.

Steven Cuoco

#85. Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.

Rafael Yglesias

#86. The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.

Morihei Ueshiba

#87. Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#88. In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

Samael Aun Weor

#89. Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Edmund Burke

#90. Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

Trent Zelazny

#91. Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

Dejan Stojanovic

#92. The secrets of art are best learned in secret, and that Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper.

Oscar Wilde

#93. You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Viggo Mortensen

#94. Frame everything and some of it will become art.

Benny Bellamacina

#95. The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.

Allan Lokos

#96. The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.

Krista Tippett

#97. Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

Arturo Toscanini

#98. Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

Henry David Thoreau

#99. It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

Maimonides

#100. One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Walter Pater