Art Quotes

Jean ke - being divorced is like being hit by a mack truck...
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
Chief joseph - hear me, my chiefs i am tired. my heart is sick...
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Tom Lehre
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!
Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
Richard Phillips Feynman
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
Thomas Andrew Bailey
The revolution is not a tea party.
Mao Tse - Tung
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
Sun Bea
Alexander solzhenitsyn, the gulag archipelago - if only it were all so simple! if only there were...
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.
Albert Einstein
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Aldous Huxley
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo.
William Shakespeare
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii
There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Woody Allen
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
A. E. Hotchne
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.
W. T. Ussery
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
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.
Spider - Man
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
Aristide Briand
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
William Drayton
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
Martin Luthe
I used to wake up at 4 A. M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurbe