Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron

In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino