Art Quotes
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.Jeff Meye
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.Kahlil Gibran
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.Anonymous
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
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
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
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.Stephen Price
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Art is the illusion of spontaneity.Japanese Prove
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.Dazed and Confused
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.E. M. Cioran
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
A heart that loves is always young.Greek Prove
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.Izaak Walton
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.Author Unknown
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.Piero Milani
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Discretion is the better part of valor.Anonymous
