Art Quotes

Francis maitland balfou - the best thing to give to your enemy is...
Sir ralph richardson, quoted in new york herald tribune, may 19, 1946 - acting is merely the art of keeping a large group...
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillo
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.
Joel Patrick Warneke
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - If you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
Jean Ke
Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.
Child Age 15
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 35 Bible
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan
Franois de salignac de la mothe fenelon - all wars are civil wars, because all men are...
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
Homer, The Odyssey
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer, The Iliad
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.
William Blake
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
Dio Lewis
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.
Karen Blixen
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
William Drayton
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.
Nora Ephron
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
American Prove
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
Marian Anderson
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
MG Siriam
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Ellen Gilcrist
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
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
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
Benjamin H. Brewste