Art Quotes

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

Carl Polloi

If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Oscar Ameringe

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

A child is the root of the heart.

Maria de Jesus

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all.

William Hart Coleridge

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure - Thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Aristotle, Metaphysica

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - - The King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.

King Farouk of Egypt, 1948

Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Bertrand Russell

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

Bertrand Russell

In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody.

Carl Sandburg

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Arab Prove

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

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

Martin Luthe

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

J Danforth Quayle

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - A Mount Rushmore of incompetence.

David Steinberg

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antonin Scalia

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".