Art Quotes

Kingsley amis - it is no wonder that people are so horrible when...
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Kahlil gibran - love has no other desire but to fulfill itself....
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein
Bad mind, bad heart.
Anacharsis Cloots
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Erich Fromm
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkne
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
Virgil
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin
Geoffrey f. albert - but what do we mean by the american revolution do...
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
Oren Arnold
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
Berenson
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Brenda Ueland
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
James Thurbe
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
Kenneth Star... has done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.
Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
When I was one - And - Twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away. Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. But I was one - And - Twenty, No use to talk to me.
A. E. Houseman
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
What I dream of is an art of balance.
Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003
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
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
Native American Praye
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammad
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.
George Gordon Byron
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles