Art Quotes

Macduff - prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs,...
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Anonymous
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net
The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.
Karin Mei? enburg, translator and autho
Miguel de cervantes - when thou art at rome, do as they do at rome....
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Prove
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
Blaise Pascal
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine.
Browning
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Author Unknown
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx
Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
Annie Sullivan
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Rothschild Parke
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringe
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
J Danforth Quayle
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Horace
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.
Spider - Man
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Albert Einstein
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Theresa
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Homer, The Odyssey
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.
Benjamin H. Brewste
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana