Art Quotes

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer, The Odyssey

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius, History

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Dave Barry

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

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

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.

Matthew Green (c. 1737)

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

What an artist the world is losing in me.

Nero Claudius Caesa

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

Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.

Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Kit Carson

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Rmy de Gourmont

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Jean Cocteau

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Harold Geneen

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Marcel Duchamp

We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

George Whitefield

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

Phyllis Mcginley

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adle

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.

William Wordsworth

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.

Heinrich Heine

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Mignon McLaughlin

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo C. Rosten

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Anonymous

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

A. E. Hotchne

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw