Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle.This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Albert Camus -
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola -
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
- Denis Diderot -
Art is the beautiful way of doing things.Science is the effective way of doing things.Business is the economic way of doing things.
- Elbert Hubbard -
Love of beauty is taste.The creation of beauty is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
- Charlie Chaplin -
Patience is the art of hoping.
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus -
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Edgar Degas -
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
- George Bernard Shaw -
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
- George Sand -