Art Quotes

Bertrand russell - in the part of this universe that we know there...
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
Luis Rodriguez, Always Running
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt
Socrates, apology, (plato) - but already it is time to depart, for me to die,...
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille
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
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Thomas Jefferson
The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
Sir Arthur Keith
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
Mark Twain
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 to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 35 Bible
Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
Japanese Prove
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles De Gaulle
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luthe
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.
Albert Einstein
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.
Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
Dan Quayle
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael
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
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis