Art Quotes

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Matthew Arnold

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

John Knowles

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Oscar Levant

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002

Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

Albert Einstein

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Stanislaw Lec

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.

The Dhammapada

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Garth Henrichs

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Elbert Hubbard

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Sir Walter Scott

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann von Goethe

Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.

Stephen Price

Kenneth Star... has done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.

Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton

Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

LaDawnna Burnett, (1975 -), Letters on Ethics

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1

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

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

Unknown

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p. 13

Give all to love obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy