Art Quotes
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.Serbian Prove
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.Marya Mannes
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.Franklin P. Jones
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.Michael Dorris
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.George Santayana
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.Pietro Aretino
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.Honore de Balzac
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.Percy Bysshe Shelley
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.Eudora Welty
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.George F. Will
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.Logan Pearsall Smith
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.Jacob Getlar Smith
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.G. C. Lichtenberg
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance.Frank Moore Colby
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.Matthew Green (c. 1737)
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.Will Rogers
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.John Ruskin
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.Havelock Ellis
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.Gersonides
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.Robert Louis Stevenson
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.Thomas Merton
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.Sue Grafton
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.Vincent Van Gogh
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.George Jessel
The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.Jim Samuels
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
