Art Quotes

Pablo picasso - there are painters who transform the sun to a...
Anne frank, from the diary of anne frank - in spite of everything, i still believe that...
The Soviet Union would remain a one - Party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - Because everyone would join that party.
Ronald Reagan
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
Piero Milani
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Laurence Sterne
Macduff - prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs,...
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.
Henry Tuckerman
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Stephen Hawking
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart.
Carlos Castaneda
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.
Robert Collie
I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.
Edward H. S. Terry
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.
Maurice Druon
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Aga
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Richard Wagne
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik W. Van Loon
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Albert Einstein
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Prove
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - Never.
Marguerite de Valois
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butle
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
Henry M. Wriston
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
Harold S. Geneen
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - - A canvas - - A piece of film - - Or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - - That vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Edward Steichen
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chaplin
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.
Johathan Edwards
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.
Unknown
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
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Mark Twain
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammad
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.
Colin Raye