Art Quotes

Paul gauguin - art is either plagiarism or revolution....
Oscar wilde - the stage is not merely the meeting place of all...
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butle
I am a part of all I have seen.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
General Omar Nelson Bradley
Jane austen, letter to cassandra, 25 november 1798 - an artist cannot do anything slovenly....
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
Sir Arthur Keith
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
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
The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Arthur Baldwin
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
Clive Staples Lewis
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
David Richerby
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
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.
Francis Bacon
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.
John Knowles
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
Vivian Baxte
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
Helen Steiner Rice
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - And both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
Robert S. McNamara, former U. S. Secretary of Defense
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.
L. Ron Hubbard
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
American Prove
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
John Updike
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.
Maitri Upanishads
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
Matthew Green (c. 1737)
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
Sue Grafton
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly