Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Paula Abdul

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Gertrude Stein

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
Julia Child

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Susan Sontag

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag

All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope