Art Quotes

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

David Frost

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

Constance Naden

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.

Pablo Picasso

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

Charles McCabe

You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Elbert Hubbard

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Ronald Reagan

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luthe

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

A. Whitney Brown

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

G. K. Chesterton

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.

Victor Hugo

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby

Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheele

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight D. Morrow

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Atwell

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

Mickey Friedman

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

B. J. Gupta

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy Sayers