Art Quotes
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.Cynthia Heimel
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.Jean Baptiste Colbert
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.Rainer Maria Rilke
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
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
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second - Rate art of imitation.Stephen Neill
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.Jean Cocteau
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.General Douglas MacArthu
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.J. Krishnamutri
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.Dwight D. Morrow
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.Latin Prove
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.Sir Winston Churchill
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.Lao Tzu
Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.William Blake
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.Johann Georg Zimmermann
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.Paul Gauguin
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.Henry Watton
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best - - - Or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.David Fiedler, in _Byte_
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.Isaac Watts
Each body has its art...Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.Edward Hubbell Chaplin
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.Marquis de Sade
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.Joseph Conrad
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.James Beard
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.M. C. Richards
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
