Art Quotes

Patanjali - peace can be reached through meditation on the...
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.
Charles Dickens
Anais nin - there are only two kinds of freedom in the world;...
A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.
Anne Brown
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.
Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.
Soren Kierkegaard
Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lam
I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Francis Behan
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabo
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
Kahlil Gibran
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.
Jean Anouilh
A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
Dan Seligman
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
Aeschylus
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.
Robin Tyle
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Dave Wine
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
Andy Warhol
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Gandhi
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin Disraeli
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.
Arabic Prove
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Baltasar Gracian
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Kenneth Star... has done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.
Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.