Art Quotes

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.
Becky Rodenbeck
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthu
Conte camillo benso di cavou - i have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats....
Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
Elayne Boosle
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.
Lao Tzu
What an artist the world is losing in me.
Nero Claudius Caesa
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
Denis watley - when you make a mistake or get ridiculed or...
Art is I; science is we.
Claude Bernard
Charles horton cooley - an artist cannot fail it is a success to be one....
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.
George Bernard Shaw
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.
A. W. Toze
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04
In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.
Louise Driscoll
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Unknown
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Thomas Carlyle
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Ricard
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Johann von Goethe
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.
Victor Hugo
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Cicero
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Aldous Huxley
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
Aristide Briand
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 Wheeler Wilcox