Art Quotes
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.Robert A. Heinlein
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.Abraham Lincoln
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.Confucius
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.Paul Erlich
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.Henry Beston
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.Helen Steiner Rice
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr Martin Luther King.Ramsey Clark
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.Francis Beaumont
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato
What I dream of is an art of balance.Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.Alfred North Whitehead
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.George Bernard Shaw
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.Laurence J. Pete
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.Sir Winston Churchill
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
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.Spider - Man
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.Henry David Thoreau
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy
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
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
A heart that loves is always young.Greek Prove
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Emily Dickinson
