Art Quotes

Frank moore colby - i know of no more disagreeable situation than to...
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Zora neale hurston,
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
Unknown
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
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann
And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.
Koran
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
Virgil
If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.
Arabic Prove
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that? s in it, And? you? ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Kelle
Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Tieck
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Albert Einstein
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.
Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.
Jean Anouilh
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
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
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Be careful what you set your heart upon - For it will surely be yours.
James Arthur Baldwin
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
Milo Bloom
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.
Rollo May
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
William Hart Coleridge
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
John Milton
I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Benito Perez Galdos
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946