Art Quotes
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.Albert Einstein
Living together is an art.William Pickens
No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.Ann Landers
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.William Faulkne
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.Rich Hall, "Sniglets".
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.Michael Bridge
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.Dave Barry
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.Woodrow Wilson
If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.Will Rogers
If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.Unknown
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.Jean Paul Richte
There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.Lao Tzu
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.Irving Layton
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.A Bartlett Giamatti
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.W. Somerset Maugham
We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.W. S. Gilbert
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.Patanjali
May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.Blessing Irish
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.Stephen Hawking
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.Koran
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.La Rochefoucauld