Art Quotes

Virgil - all these souls, after they have passed away a...
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Robert Fulghum
ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
Daphne rose kingma - today, see if you can stretch your heart and...
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
Tshunka Witko
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Listen to your heart, because in the end it is your heart that matters.
Jennifer Tyle
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)
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
Pat robertson, when asked the question
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - - The King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
King Farouk of Egypt, 1948
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.
Arnold Bennett
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Baltasar Gracian
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
Sue Patton Thoele
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
George Eliot, Romola, 1863
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...
Alfred E. Newman
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
Homer, The Odyssey
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
Lord Billingsley
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingrid Bergman
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George Gissing
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.
Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.
Rich Hall, "Sniglets".
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
Yoshida Kenko
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.
Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.
Carl Polloi
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.
Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle