Art Quotes

Philip johnson - architecture is the art of how to waste space....
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Ralph waldo emerson - the peril of every fine faculty is the delight of...
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.
Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
Voltaire
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard Avishai
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
Aeschylus
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.
Malcom Mclaren
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Pete
John lennon - apathy isn? t it. we can do something. so flower...
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
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
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
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Quida
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson, (attributed)
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Bunyan
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
Polybius, History
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
Samuel Butle
I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
Dan Quayle
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Anonymous
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
Dax Ward
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold Geneen
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
Matthew Green (c. 1737)
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
Archibald Cox
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.
Robert E. Kahn
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
H. W. Dodds
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
John Locke
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
Martin Luthe