Art Quotes
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
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
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.Millicent Carey McIntosh
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.Robert Benchley
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.Cicero
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.Susanne Lange
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.Al Capp
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.Charles Baudelaire
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.George Washington Carve
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.American Prove
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.Charles Darwin
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.Yoshida Kenko
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.Richard Milhous Nixon
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.Sir Francis Bacon
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.Thomas Merton
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
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
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Behan
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Margaret Fulle
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.Steven Runciman
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.William Inge
The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.Dodie Smith
