art is long, and time is fleeting. (longfellow, american poet)
藝術是永恒不變的，時間則是一剎那稍縱即逝的。(美國詩人 朗費羅)

art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it ! (robert motherwell, american painter)
藝術遠沒有日常生活關鍵，可是沒有藝術生活是多么的枯燥呀！(美國藝術家 馬赦艾默 r)

art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. (len tolstoy, russian writer)
藝術并不是技藝，它是藝術家的體會到的情感的傳送。(俄國作家托爾斯泰。l)

art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought. (susanne langer, american philosopher)
藝術是情感的模制品，宛如語言表達是觀念的模制品。(美國思想家 蘭格 s)

ger, american philosopher and educator)
藝術是情緒的客觀性主要表現(xiàn)。也是天性的主觀性體現(xiàn)。(美國思想家、教育學家 蘭格 s k)

art is the right hand of nature. the latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. (friedrich schiller, german poet)
藝術是當然的左手。當然只使我們存有，而藝術造就大家的人們。(法國詩人 席勒 f)

art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travel. (theocore dreser, american novelist

　　great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight (p.b.shelley, british poet)
杰出的篇章就是始終噴出來聰慧和歡悅之水的音樂噴泉。(法國詩人 雪萊 p b)

a novel is a mirror walking along a main road. (stendhcl,french writer)
一部小說宛如一面在大街上走的浴室鏡子。(法國作家 司湯達)

a picture is a poem without words. (horace, ancient roman poet)
一幅畫是一首沒有文本的詩文。(古羅馬帝國詩人 賀拉斯)

a poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (e.de goncourt, french writer)
詩人是這樣的人，他搭起通往星辰的人字梯一邊爬樓梯一邊拉提琴。(法國作家 龔古爾 e)

a poet is born, not made. (l.a.florus, ancient roman poet)
詩人靠天賦，并不是靠塑造。(古羅馬帝國詩人 弗洛魯 l a)

any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authourity is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. (da vinci, italian painter)
一個趁著旁征博引來爭辯的人，并不是在應用自身的智謀，他是在應用自身的記憶能力。(意大利畫家 達·列奧納多)

art is a lie that tells the truth. (picasso, spanish painter)
工藝美術是揭露真知的謊話。(西班牙畫家 畢加索)