Art Quotes
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.Shirley Temple
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.Romare Beardon
Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!David Letterman
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.W. H. Auden
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.W. J. Cameron
Our ego is our silent partner - - Too often with a controlling interest.Cullen Hightowe
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.James Thurbe
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.Galileo Galilei
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.Jason Berg
The weather - Cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm - wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.Heinrich Heine
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.Robert W. Sarnoff
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides.Arthur Schnabel
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.General Omar Nelson Bradley
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.Karen Blixen
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.George Santayana
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.John Updike
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.Mignon McLaughlin
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.Otto von Bismarck
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.Bruce Lee
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.Franklin P. Adams
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.Johann von Goethe
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.Dan Rathe
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.W. Somerset Maugham
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.Robert Burton
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Hellen Kelle
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.Henry Kissinge
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
