Art Quotes
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.Tieck
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.Elisha Potte
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.Anthony Robbins
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.Albert Einstein
An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.Napolean Hill
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andre Gide
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....Ian Shoales
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.Ralph Nade
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.William Shakespeare
Great artists have no country.Alfred du Masset
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second - Rate art of imitation.Stephen Neill
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.Henri F. Amiel
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.Jim Bishop
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.Sophocles
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.Marie Curie
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
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
I read part of it all the way through.Samuel Goldwyn
God is seated in the hearts of all.Bhagavad Gita
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.Ralph Waldo Emerson
