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| One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees | | Marcel Proust | |
| Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. (Acts 26:26) | | Bible | |
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| Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing | | Edmund Burke | |
| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. | | Paul Valery | |
| Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it | | Victor Hugo | |
| Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. | | Christopher Morley | |
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| Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. | | Frank Lloyd Wright | |
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| Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| 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 | |
| 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 aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance | | Aristotle | |
| The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. | | William James | |
| The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
