Art Quotes

Robert s. mcnamara, former u. s. secretary of defense - brains, like hearts, go where they are...
William makepeace thackeray - a cheerful look brings joy to the heart....
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
Pablo picasso - art washes away from the soul, the dust of...
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
Alfred Victor Vigny
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.
George Bernard Shaw
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
John Updike
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - - As long as I keep my senses, at least.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Kelle
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Gustav Jung
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
Unknown
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nade
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John Morley
Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.
The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence