Art Quotes
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.Ben Shahn
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance.Frank Moore Colby
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.Plato, The Republic
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.Ricard
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.Milo Bloom
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.Robert Collie
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.George Bernard Shaw
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.Virgil
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.Benjamin Disraeli
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.Marianne Williamson
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo.William Shakespeare
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
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.Martin Luthe
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.Robert Bloch
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
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.Nietzsche
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.Bill Cosby
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.John Foster Dulles
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.Okakura Kakuzo
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.W. Somerset Maugham
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang
