Art Quotes

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
M. C. Richards
Martin luthe - anything that one imagines of god apart from...
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fulle
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Thomas Carlyle
Franz kafka - there art two cardinal sins from which all others...
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
Philip johnson - architecture is the art of how to waste space....
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Ronald Reagan
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.
Rollo May
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
Unknown
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.
Polly Whitney
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
J. K. Galbraith
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.
Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
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
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann von Goethe
All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.
Sir Robert Owen
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
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
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
T. S. Eliot
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
A. N. Whitehead