Art Quotes
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.Elbert Hubbard
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.Tom Blai
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it - - who can say this is not greatness.William Makepeace Thackeray
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?Scott Adams
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
Art is anything you can get away with.Andy Warhol
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - A Mount Rushmore of incompetence.David Steinberg
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.Charles Dickens
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.Moby, quoted on CNN. com, March 2005
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.John Tyndall
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
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
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.Paul Gauguin
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.Samuel C. Florman
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
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.Rebecca West
A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.Anne Brown
Insanity in individuals is something rare - But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.Friedrich Nietzsche
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.Colley Cibbe
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.Unknown
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.Chief Seattle
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
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
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.Auguste Renoi
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.Edmund Burke
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.James Madison
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Herbert Aga
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
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.Albert Einstein
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
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.Ralph Waldo Emerson
