Art Quotes

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

John Ciardi

But did thee feel the earth move?

Ernest Hemingway

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

George Bernard Shaw

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Isaac Watts

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

A. N. Whitehead

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Erlich

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

J. K. Galbraith

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Miguel de Cervantes

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

Hannah Whitall Smith

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

The weather - Cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm - wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Heinrich Heine

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - And both commonly succeed, and are right.

H. L. Mencken

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, 1966

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

Eric Hoffe

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

Great artists have no country.

Alfred du Masset

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph, on his surrender to Gen. Howard, October 5, 1877

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart.

Carlos Castaneda