Art Quotes

Joseph conrad - how does one kill fear, i wonder how do you shoot...
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
James baldwin - the purpose of art is to lay bare the questions...
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw".
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent Van Gogh
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.
George Carlin
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivanada
The art of being bored is lost.
Ted Klauber, Senior Executive, FCB Worldwide
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.
Alan Stewart Paton
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
Alvin Toffle
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.
Jean - Francois Rameau
Piet mondrian - the position of the artist is humble. he is...
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Learned Hand, jurist
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn Monroe
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
Albert Einstein
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Anonymous
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Unknown
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
Ralph J. Smith
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.
James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983
If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. - - John F. Kennedy to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1962.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Kit Carson
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
As he thinks in his heart, so he is.
Jewish Prove
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
High living and high thinking are poles apart.
B. J. Gupta
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann von Goethe
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
David Richerby
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radne
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.
Joel Patrick Warneke