Art Quotes

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Mark Twain

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfred Victor Vigny

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann von Goethe

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Oscar Levant

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.

Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Robert Joseph Bob Dole

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Sir John Lubbock

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

W. J. Cameron

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...

Antoine Laurent Lavoisie

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Randall Wallace

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Anon.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthu

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.

Spider - Man

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Stephen Hawking

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

James Abram Garfield