Art Quotes

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Percival

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

John 174 Bible

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Karl Marx

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliott

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Vauvenargues

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Rmy de Gourmont

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Scott Adams

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Sir Winston Churchill

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

Louise Driscoll

If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. - - John F. Kennedy to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1962.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. V. Lucas

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)

Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

W. B. Yeats, the second coming

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Charles Horton Cooley

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.

Karin Mei? enburg, translator and autho