Art Quotes

Henry beston - do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour...
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.
Eliza Mother Stewart
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
F. scott fitzgerald - vitality shows in not only the ability to persist...
Hellen kelle - the best and most beautiful things in the world...
God is seated in the hearts of all.
Bhagavad Gita
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!
Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.
Pearl Buck
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arab Prove
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Tom Lehre
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin
If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.
Unknown
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
Emily Dickinson
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Ronald Reagan
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.
Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
Milo Bloom
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
Eric Hoffe
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Anon.
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
J. Russel Lynes
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
Kahlil Gibran
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry Kissinge
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Gustav Jung
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Erich Fromm
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
What I dream of is an art of balance.
Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
Blaise Pascal
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun