Art Quotes
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.Erich Fromm
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.Rene Angelil
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.William Shakespeare
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.Jean - Francois Rameau
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.William Bolitho
If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.Unknown
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.Tryon Edwards
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.Louis Kronenberge
Hear me, my chiefs I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.Chief Joseph
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.Aldous Huxley
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.Edna St. Vincent Millay
Originality is the art of concealing your source.Franklin P. Jones
The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Bertrand Russell
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?Jules Feiffe
No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot.Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783
The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.Stephen Neill
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
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.Horace Mann
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.Charles Williams
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.George Washington Carve
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.Nora Roberts
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.Denis Diderot
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
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.Auguste Rodin
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.Martin Luthe
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...Alfred E. Newman
