Art Quotes

H. a. kramers - in the world of human thought generally, and in...
Vivian baxte - life is going to give you just what you put into...
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
Bill Chickering
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Tennessee Williams
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.
James Madison
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Aldous Huxley
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.
Polly Whitney
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
Alfred lord tennyson - i am a part of all i have seen....
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
William Shakespeare
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffe
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butle
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
A gentle word is never lost... It cheers the heart when sorrow - Tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.
Hastings
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
William Blake
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
Pablo Picasso
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The Dhammapada
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Benito Perez Galdos
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
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".
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
Leo Rosten
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.
Richard Olton
High living and high thinking are poles apart.
B. J. Gupta
I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
Martin Luthe
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Albert Einstein