Art Quotes

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butle

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

Pablo Picasso

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Kahlil Gibran

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

B. B. Warfield

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthu

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Llama

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...

William Shakespeare

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild

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

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.

Bob Allisat

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

John Bunyan

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie