Art Quotes

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Archibald cox - watergate showed more strengths in our system...
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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
A child is the root of the heart.
Maria de Jesus
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel de Cervantes
Mother teresa - it is easy to love the people far away. it is not...
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Novalis - the artist belongs to his work, not the work to...
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.
Charles Dickens
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
Elayne Boosle
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, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets
A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
Dan Seligman
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
Emmet Fox
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
John Milton
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beeche
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
Jeff Meye
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.
Leonardo DaVinci
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - Never.
Marguerite de Valois
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
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
Robert Englund
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.
Unknown
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Tench Coxe
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lam
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
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Al Capone
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
Leo Rosten
One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.
Yvette Gilbert, (1865 - 1944)
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Clive Staples Lewis