Art Quotes

Franklin p. jones - originality is the art of concealing your source....
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Carl jung - an understanding heart is everything in a...
James thurbe - the wit makes fun of other persons the satirist...
Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Matthew Arnold
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
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingrid Bergman
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Don Miguel Ruiz
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann von Goethe
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
George F. Will
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Denis Watley
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
Helen Steiner Rice
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
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
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.
Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osle
J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.
Spider - Man
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Sir Francis Bacon
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
Kahlil Gibran