Art Quotes

Horace - you have played enough you have eaten and drunk...
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
Anon. - lat love me faithfullysee how i am faithfulwith...
Mark twain - an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a...
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
Oscar Wilde
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Lyndon B. Johnson
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.
Kahlil Gibran
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
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Erich Fromm
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
Henry Drummond
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
Each body has its art...
Gwendolyn Brooks
Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheele
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
James Madison, Federalist 10
And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.
Koran
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Aldous Huxley
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five - Cent nickel.
Franklin P. Adams
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.
David Frost
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
Moliere
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.
George Eliot, Romola
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.
Marc Chagall
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Mark Twain