Art Quotes

Lucius annaeus seneca - to wish to be well is a part of becoming well....
Lydia m. child - genius hath electric power which earth can never...
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
Sir Winston Churchill
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Russian prove - it is not the horse that draws the cart, but the...
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.
Charles De Gaulle
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
Manly P. Hall
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can.
Anon.
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Jim Bishop
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
Molly Haskell
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
Edgar Albert Guest
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
Home
I am a part of all that I have met.
John Milton
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Val? ry
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Turkish Prove
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
H. W. Dodds
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.
Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
Elayne Boosle
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net
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".
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
General Omar Nelson Bradley
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...
Alfred E. Newman