Art Quotes
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.Eliza Mother Stewart
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
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
I am a part of all I have read.John Kieran
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?Jules Feiffe
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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".
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.Harry S Truman
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Herbert Aga
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.Bertrand Russell
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.Ella Wheele
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.La Rochefoucauld
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.Auguste Renoi
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.Marylin Monroe
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.William Inge
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.Peter Nivio Zarlenga
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.Atwell
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.Baltasar Gracian
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.
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.Dorothy Sayers
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.David Hume
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.Miguel de Cervantes
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andr Gide
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.Washington Irving
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.Harold Loukes
Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.Gaius Julius Caesa
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
