Art Quotes

Andy warhol - making money is art and working is art and good...
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.
David Frost
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.
Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
Francis beaumont - all confidence which is not absolute and entire,...
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.
Navajo Chant
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
Pearl Buck
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
Albert Einstein
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.
Philo Judaeus
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.
Andrew Schneide
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
Pablo Picasso
George washington carve - i believe that the great creator has put ores and...
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.
Henry Seely
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Chinese Prove
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George Gissing
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
The Land Before Time
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
Will Rogers
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Prove
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlye
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Gail Pool
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
Socrates, Apology, (Plato)
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Tom Blai
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk