Art Quotes

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Dan Quayle

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....

Ian Shoales

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Alfred Victor Vigny

It? s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 09 - 05

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.

Unknown

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

H. S. Thompson

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....

Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001

Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.

Polly Whitney

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Dan Rathe

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

Samuel C. Florman

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A Bartlett Giamatti

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius