Art Quotes

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

Dazed and Confused

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Christa McAuliffe

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.

Leonardo DaVinci

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Derek Bethune

The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.

Native American

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

A Bartlett Giamatti

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus

A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.

Johathan Edwards

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

R. H. Grant

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

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

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

Dante Alighieri

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Albert Smith

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend.

Ronnie Hawkins

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Jeff Pesis

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.

Sir Francis Bacon