Art Quotes

Henry wadsworth longfellow - trust no future, however pleasant let the dead...
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Kelle
Johann von goethe - the artist alone sees spirits. but after he has...
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibbe
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
George Eliot, Romola, 1863
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
Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
This Is Spinal Tap
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.
Arnold Bennett
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
Henry David Thoreau
Woody allen, without feathers - a day in the life of a doe unbearably lovely...
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.
Zig Zigla
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Sir William Osle
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.
Henry Ward Beeche
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Elizabeth Bowen
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
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
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.
Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
James Baldwin
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
Aeschylus
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.
Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkne
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
California, the department store state.
Raymond Chandle
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.
Rudyard Kipling
Art is anything you can get away with.
Andy Warhol
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