Art Quotes

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo DaVinci, (maybe)

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.

Gaius Julius Caesa

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

W. J. Cameron

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Paul Klee

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin

When making personal decisions, listen to what your head says then listen to what your heart says. If they differ, follow your heart Whenever you listen to your heart, you listen to that part of you that is most interested in your well - Being.

Unknown

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Marcel Duchamp

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Unknown

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.

Marylin Monroe

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Norman Vincent Peale

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

John Evelyn

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Serbian Prove

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Charles Kingsley

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald Mc Leish

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luthe

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

La Rochefoucauld

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste