Art Quotes

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.

Patricia Roberts Harris

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

William Drayton

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.

Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

James Beard

With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8

The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.

Native American

Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.

Gaius Julius Caesa

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

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, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface

There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles, 1966

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

Auguste Renoi

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann von Goethe

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

William Shakespeare

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II