Art Quotes

Charles baudelaire - there is no such thing as a long piece of work,...
Leroy robert satchel paige - never let the odds keep you from pursuing what...
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.
Omaha Prove
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Charles baudelaire - a book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a...
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.
John Lennon
Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass.
So I Married an Axe Murdere
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan Prove
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Learned Hand, jurist
I think, therefore Descartes exists.
Saul Steinberg
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.
Marc Chagall
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
Charles Kingsley
The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.
Tod Johnson
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
Lucretius
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.
Joseph Conrad
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.
Charles Horton Cooley
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
Eugene McCarthy
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osle
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.
Erich Fromm
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon
To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.
Bob Allisat