Art Quotes

Oscar wilde - the stage is not merely the meeting place of all...
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lin yutang, o magazine, october 2002 - besides the noble art of getting things done,...
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.
Jason Berg
Start slow and taper off.
Walt Stack
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
S. J. Perelman
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.
Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
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
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
Repetition is the death of art.
Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Tom Lehre
Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.
Rich Hall, "Sniglets".
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie Hoffman
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Uta Hagan
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
Garth Henrichs
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge
Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
Bill Bulko
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.
Robert Frost
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.
Paulo Coelho, Brida
I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
James Cash Penney
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
James Randi
If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Chinese Prove
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.
W. Edward Brown
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi