Art Quotes

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
A. N. Whitehead
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Yvette gilbert, (1865 - 1944) - one cannot remain the same. art is a mirror which...
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
Miguel de cervantes - when thou art at rome, do as they do at rome....
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle, Metaphysica
Claude bernard - art is i; science is we....
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
William Fullbright
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
Mark Twain
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - If you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
Jean Ke
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Homer, The Odyssey
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
Henry Drummond
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Arthur Baldwin
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.
Lavina Christensen Fugal
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
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
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
Robert Bloch
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Hasidic Saying
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.
Robert Green Ingersoll