Art Quotes

More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - - The acid, final test.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina G. Rossetti

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - - And know the place for the first time.

T. S Eliot

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Paul Klee

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.

Albert Einstein

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Jim Beggs

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Edward Morgan Forste

I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Arnold Bennett

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Ludwig von Beethoven

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.

Marcius Porcius Cato

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Richard Adams

When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.

Richard Olton

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Quida

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxte

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles