Art Quotes

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Gustave Flaubert

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Donald O. Rickte

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

Dio Lewis

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Saul Bellow

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Colley Cibbe

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.

Unknown

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Charles Kingsley

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Phillips Feynman

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!

Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958

The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Edward R. Murrow

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Pete

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Sue Grafton

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.

Katherine Mansfield

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Karl Rove, March 19, 2001

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

Whittaker Chambers

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beeche