Art Quotes
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.Socrates, Apology, (Plato)
The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Arthur Baldwin
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.Proverbs 35 Bible
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.Al Capp
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - - And know the place for the first time.T. S Eliot
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.Jean Cocteau
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A light heart lives long.Irish Prove
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.Herbert W. Boyer, co - Founder of Genentech, Inc.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - - A canvas - - A piece of film - - Or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - - That vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.Edward Steichen
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....Ian Shoales
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.William Shakespeare
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.Unknown
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.Samuel Butle
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.Kahlil Gibran
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.Paulson Frenckne
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.Henry Ward Beeche
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.James Baldwin
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
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.Kahlil Gibran
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.Robert Byrne
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.Harry S Truman
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
