Art Quotes

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Dan Quayle, 11/30/88

What an artist the world is losing in me.

Nero Claudius Caesa

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

John Hay

I am a part of all I have read.

John Kieran

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery

The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.

Unknown

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Harold S. Geneen

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch, Morals

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.

Ernst Jnger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

Terry Josephson

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.

Child Age 15

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Seneca

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.

George D. Prentice

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardne

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Robert Byrne

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Patanjali