Art is never finished, only abandoned.  Leonardo da Vinci quotes Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Kahlil Gibran quotes He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. Moliere quotes I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. D.H. Lawrence quotes One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. Albert Einstein quotes We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead. D.H. Lawrence quotes Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler quotes A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. Marcel Proust quotes Art never improves, but . . . the material of art is never quite the same. T.S. Eliot quotes The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the Henri Matisse quotes | 
