Art Quotes
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.Johann von Goethe
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.Janet Long
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.Isaac Watts
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.Marge Piercy
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.Edith Wharton
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.Sinclair Lewis
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.Agnes de Mille
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.Clive Staples Lewis
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.John Petit - Senn
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot
We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.Jeff Warne
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.James Madison
One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.Yvette Gilbert, (1865 - 1944)
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.Henry Ward Beeche
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them.Jules Feiffe
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.Ludwig van Beethoven
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.Marcus Tullius Cicero
High living and high thinking are poles apart.B. J. Gupta
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.Siddha Nagarjuna
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.Johnson
There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.Venezuelan Prove
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.John Barth
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.Molly Haskell
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.Learned Hand, jurist
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.Thomas Carlye
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.Benito Perez Galdos
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.John Tyndall
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - Never.Marguerite de Valois
