There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art is science made clear.
Wilson Mizner

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Wilson Mizner

Space is the breath of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus Aurelius

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot