Art Quotes

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Seneca

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

J. Russel Lynes

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly.... Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party.

Les Brown

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holme

Dreams are wishes your heart makes.

American Prove

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Dame Edith Sitwell

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Phil Condit

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran

Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Will Rogers

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.

Robert Fulghum

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

Pablo Piccaso

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

Ferdinand Magellan

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Lewis Ward

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

The art of being bored is lost.

Ted Klauber, Senior Executive, FCB Worldwide

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Russell L. Ackoff

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Robert Frost

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

William Drayton

There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.

Venezuelan Prove

There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.

William Shakespeare