Art

Quotes on art.

The life we lead becomes the meat of artistic expression.
-Ruby Dee

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
- Dr. Seuss

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle