The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt Disney

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol