Art Quotes

John fitzgerald kennedy - geography has made us neighbors. history has made...
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
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
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Plato - i exhort you also to take part in the great...
John ruskin - we were not sent into this world to do anything...
If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.
Unknown
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
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
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke
You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.
Henri Frdric Amiel
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Sir Henry Taylo
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
Insanity in individuals is something rare - But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.
Radiquet
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.
William Wordsworth
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
Herbert W. Boyer, co - Founder of Genentech, Inc.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
Chief Seattle
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
Henry G. Stott, 1907
The out - Of - work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
Orison Swett Marden
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Loukes
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
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Rene Angelil
A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
Dan Seligman