Art Quotes

Mikhail sergeyevich gorbachev - without glasnost there is not, and there cannot...
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.
Marcius Porcius Cato
The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A heart that loves is always young.
Greek Prove
Chief joseph, on his surrender to gen. howard, october 5, 1877 - hear me, my chiefs! i am tired. my heart is sick...
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
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
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.
The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence
ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.
L. Ron Hubbard
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Sir Philip Sidney
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Archibald Mc Leish
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
Joan Winmill Brown
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
American Prove
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
Blaise Pascal
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
Albert Einstein
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
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)
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
Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.
Carl Polloi
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
Karl Kraus
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - - The King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
King Farouk of Egypt, 1948
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Charles Peguy
My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes