Art Quotes
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.Cyril Connolly
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.Friedrich Nietzsche
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.Leo Tolstoy
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.Plato
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.Dave Barry
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - - As long as I keep my senses, at least.Jane Welsh Carlyle
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.George Bernard Shaw
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.Andy Warhol
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.Henry Ward Beeche
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.Jeannette Rankin
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.Saint Benedict
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.Henry Kissinge
The art of being bored is lost.Ted Klauber, Senior Executive, FCB Worldwide
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.Gustave Flaubert
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - Particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.Woody Allen
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.Maurice Druon
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...Pablo Picasso
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.Marcius Porcius Cato
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.Henry Tuckerman
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
As he thinks in his heart, so he is.Jewish Prove
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.Raynor Schein
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
