Art Quotes

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Mao Zedong

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

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.

Edward H. S. Terry

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald Mc Leish

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

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

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.

Annie Gottlie

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 and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.

Old School

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthu

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - If you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

Jean Ke

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

John W. N. Sullivan

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato, The Republic

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

Cicero

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.

Native American

Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

Ralph Kine

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

South

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Hilton Krame

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle