The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson