Art Quotes

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Scott Adams

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

George Seaton Bowes

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.

Jesse Louis Jackson

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Anon.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph, on his surrender to Gen. Howard, October 5, 1877

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

Biblical Prove

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

Cicero

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.

James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983

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

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.

Unknown

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Mao Zedong

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

Jeff Meye

Art is anything you can get away with.

Andy Warhol

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Sir Winston Churchill

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