Art Quotes

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

Janet Long

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best - - - Or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.

David Fiedler, in _Byte_

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin P. Adams

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin Prove

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field.

Jim Boulton

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Marian Anderson

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luthe

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Mark Twain

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann von Goethe

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

Ralph Kine

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.

Robin Tyle

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Uta Hagan

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Saul Bellow

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Lauren Bacall

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno