Art Quotes

Kahlil gibran - oh, heart, i the ignorant say to you that the...
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Blessing Irish
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
Sonjay Anand
Graffito - there is no gravity. the earth sucks....
S. l. a. marshall, men against fire, 1947 - the art of leading, in operations large or small,...
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.
Marc Chagall
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.
Bo Jackson
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin Disraeli
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
Dio Lewis
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
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.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert
A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.
Steven Wright
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Pete
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
Michel de Montaigne
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
Charles Caleb Colton
Wife: a former sweetheart.
H. L. Mencken
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
Tshunka Witko
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly.... Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party.
Les Brown
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
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".
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.
W. Edward Brown
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
Unknown
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Alexander Pope
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii
Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.
William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille Ball
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago