Art Quotes

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Loomis Pound
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
Joseph addison - animals, in their generation, are wiser than the...
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Unknown
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
Archimedes (ca. 235 bc)
Edith newbold jones wharton - life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered...
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
William shakespeare,
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.
Otto von Bismarck
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Jim
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
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Brenda Ueland
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles, 1966
Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!
David Letterman
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
Rachel Blanchard
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
Marcus Terentius Varro, On Agriculture
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
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
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
Saul Bellow
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman... on Love & Relationships
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.
Rudolf Karl Bultmann
The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.
Unknown
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Anon.
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
Henry P. Fairchild
In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.
Henri Cartier - Bresson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
Luis Rodriguez, Always Running
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
George Whitefield