Art Quotes

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides.
Arthur Schnabel
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure - Thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.
Philo Judaeus
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Sophocles - wisdom is the supreme part of happiness....
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.
Otto von Bismarck
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.
Jason Berg
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Homer, The Odyssey
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
George Burns
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.
Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
Homer, The Odyssey
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
Charles E. Jefferson
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.
Andrew Schneide
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
Henry Beston
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Ronald Reagan
Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.
Pablo Picasso
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Martin Barzun
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Tennessee Williams
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...
Alfred E. Newman
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
Oren Arnold
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
W. S. Gilbert
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luthe
Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
This Is Spinal Tap
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Aga
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beeche
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.
Colin Raye
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - - The King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
King Farouk of Egypt, 1948