Art Quotes
In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.Henri Cartier - Bresson
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.Dr. Arbthnot
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.Charles Simmons
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .Phylos the Tibetan
God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.Izaak Walton
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.Saul Bellow
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.Charles E. Jefferson
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.Sir William Osle
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.Woodrow Wilson
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.Susan Sontag
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.H. L. Mencken
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.Virgil
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.Albert Einstein
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.South
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.Ludwig Erhard
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.J. Krishnamutri
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - The best part under ground.Thomas Overbury
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.Jeff Meye
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.Ambrose Bierce
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.James Joseph Sylveste
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon
