Art Quotes

Discretion is the better part of valor.
Anonymous
Sir winston churchill - i cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours....
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
Epictetus
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho
Johann von goethe - the world is so empty if one thinks only of...
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs
Walt whitman, song of the open road - now i see the secret of the making of the best...
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
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
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.
Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.
Sir Ronald A. Fishe
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Arthur Baldwin
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
Bill Chickering
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
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
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
Saint Augustine, Confessions
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.
Eliza Mother Stewart
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Shakespeare
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Albert Einstein
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p. 13