Art Quotes
BesideCother art to be learned - - Not to see what is not.Maria Mitchell
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.Thomas Fulle
My heart is pure as the driven slush.Tallulah Bankhead
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.Fernandez de Andrada
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sophia Loren
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.Ann Landers
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.Old School
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.Al Capp
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.Sinclair Lewis
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.Malcolm Boyd
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
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.Kahlil Gibran
This is the last of earth! I am content.John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.John Locke
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Margaret Fulle
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
I am a part of all I have seen.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
