Art Quotes

Frederick william robertson - the true aim of everyone who aspires to be a...
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.
Spider - Man
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.
Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".
Washington irving - christmas is a season for kindling the fire for...
Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
Stephen Price
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de Cervantes
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer, The Iliad
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Phil Condit
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
Berenson
Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!
David Letterman
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
Voltaire
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
It? s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 09 - 05
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Unknown
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Bad mind, bad heart.
Anacharsis Cloots
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
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
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
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
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - And both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken