Art Quotes

If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Winston Churchhill

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Jean Paul Richte

A large part of virtue consists in good habits.

William Paley

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

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

Edith Wharton

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Albert Einstein

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

Anonymous

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

Alexandre Dumas

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature".

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Felix G. Rohatyn

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Russian prove

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.

Russell M. Nelson

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Pauline Kael

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

Kelvin Throop

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

I used to wake up at 4 A. M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

James Thurbe

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824