Art Quotes

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Colley Cibbe

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Charles H. Mayo

Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.

Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Scott Adams

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.

Christian Cardell Corbet

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Bertrand Russell

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Robert Frost

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Horace

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

Sue Patton Thoele

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

Aeschylus

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Chinese Prove

My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.

Mike Singletary

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Prove

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

Paulo Coelho, Brida

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

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

George Bernard Shaw

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

Dante Alighieri