Art Quotes

May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.
Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
Kahlil gibran - a poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who...
ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.
L. Ron Hubbard
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
Janet Long
Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.
Hiram Powers
William wadsworth - fill your paper with the breathings of your...
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Jules renard - love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling...
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce
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
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Louis Jackson
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
William Paley
The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.
Karin Mei? enburg, translator and autho
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.
Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.
Albert Einstein
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer, The Iliad
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo C. Rosten
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Llama
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch, Morals
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
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Steven King, The Stand
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl
I am a part of all that I have met.
John Milton
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
George J. Seidel
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho
What an artist the world is losing in me.
Nero Claudius Caesa
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S Truman
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn