Art Quotes

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Blaise Pascal
Ernest dimnet - touch the earth, love the earth, honour the...
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Michael J. Gel
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams
Helen kelle - no pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the...
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann
Pablo picasso - art washes away from the soul the dust of...
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
Zig Zigla
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
Auguste Renoi
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
American Prove
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul Erlich
Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
Bill Bulko
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
Each body has its art...
Gwendolyn Brooks
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Saint Augustine
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
William Inge
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
Henri Frdric Amiel
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
Alan Chadwick
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.
Loren
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.
Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de Cervantes
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.
Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
Michel de Montaigne
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Horace