Art Quotes

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato, The Republic

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Theresa

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

Radiquet

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Albert Einstein

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Joseph Addison

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.

John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

George Linley

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

Robert S. McNamara, former U. S. Secretary of Defense

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Winchell

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Russell L. Ackoff

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

This Is Spinal Tap

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.

Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

The Land Before Time

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs