Art Quotes
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
There is no gravity. The earth sucks.Graffito
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.Don Schula
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.William Shakespeare
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.Brenda Ueland
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.Betty Smith
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.Benjamin Disraeli
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien
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
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.Rudolf Karl Bultmann
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.Paul Erlich
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.Edward Hubbell Chaplin
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.Dorothy Rothschild Parke
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.Oscar Wilde
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.George MacDonald
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.D. H. Lawrence
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.Clive Staples Lewis
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.La Rochefoucauld
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.Edward R. Murrow
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.William Osle
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.Martin Luthe
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.Oscar Wilde
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.Irving Layton
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
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.Charles Caleb Colton
