Noblest Art Quotes

#1. The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

Isadora Duncan

#2. The noblest art is that of making others happy

P.T. Barnum

#3. Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

Chang-rae Lee

#4. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Brian Eno

#5. You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

F. Sionil Jose

#6. She wondered what he'd make of the murder. "Well, well," he would say, "veddy bad. But would it be better if we did not know about it? No. Certainly not. And if we know, must we not do something about it? Certainly. If only to pray.

Mary Anne Kelly

#7. Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

#8. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

Dom DeLuise

#10. The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught ... What a teacher can do ... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

Elbert Hubbard

#12. The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

Henry Abbey

#13. The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.

Nancy Pelosi

#14. The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.

Riteish Deshmukh

#16. What's that sticky stuff called?
Basta: Duct tape.
Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

Cornelia Funke

#17. What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity ... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

Paul Klee

#18. I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

James Rosenquist

#19. Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Ken Follett

#20. Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Harry Greb

#21. It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#22. And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.

Emily Giffin

#23. And finally: Who are we when we're not ourselves?

Andrew Sean Greer