Art Quotes

It? s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 09 - 05

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Jean Ke

Hear me, my chiefs I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles, 1966

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Mary McLeod Bethune

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.

Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980

May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butle

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

Confucius

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

Lavina Christensen Fugal

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3. 6. 7]

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

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

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.

Blaise Pascal

Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Leo Buscaglia

When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.

George Eliot, Romola

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery