Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology... →
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your... →
David Whyte
I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a comic book in a few minutes and be so... →
Jane Wiedlin
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
Kristen Wiig
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from... →
Ella Wheeler Wilcox