Art Quotes

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holme

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Irving Layton

The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.

Edwin Markham

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

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

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwa

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.

Ralph J. Smith

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Gail Pool

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Mount Hufstedle

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Edward Hubbell Chaplin

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...

William Shakespeare

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Lao Tzu

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)

The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.

Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.

Swami Sivanada

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.

Steven Wright

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Prove

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

W. T. Ellis

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

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Sir Philip Sidney

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii