Art Quotes
Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.Ella Wheele
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.Thomas Crum
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.Clive Staples Lewis
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.J. Russel Lynes
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.Philip Johnson
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.Alan J. Perlis
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.South
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.Ernest Benn
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.Saadi
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.Karl Marx
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.Nikita Khrushchev
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.Ambrose Bierce
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.Walter Savage Lando
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.Max Eastman
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.Harold Geneen
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.Honore de Balzac
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.Anna Quindlen
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.Harold S. Geneen
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.Ripley D. Saunders
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.A Bartlett Giamatti
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
God is seated in the hearts of all.Bhagavad Gita
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.Bill Vaughan
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.Chief Seattle
