Art Quotes

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
Saul bellow - the part can never be well unless the whole is...
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Seneca - i will govern my life and thoughts as if the...
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, from Four Quartets
Unknown - if an artist is not able to commit himself...
Give your hearts, but not into each other? s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
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
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
Dwight D. Morrow
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
A. R. Orage
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard Avishai
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
William Shakespeare
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
Kahlil Gibran
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
George Linley
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.
Daphne Rose Kingma
Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
Elayne Boosle
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
Henry David Thoreau
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
John Kenneth Galbraith
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
Pablo Picasso
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.
Napolean Hill
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
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
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
John W. N. Sullivan
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.
Anne Brown
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Bible, Colossians 3: 16