Art Quotes

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Milo Bloom

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

This Is Spinal Tap

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

Carl Polloi

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Stanislaw Lec

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Ogden Nash, "The Pig".

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

Oscar Wilde

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Prove

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.

Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Kahlil Gibran

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Longfellow

The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.

W. Edward Brown

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

Dutch Prove

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 Wheeler Wilcox

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada

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

It? s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 09 - 05

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us - - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe