Art Quotes

Louise guiney - quotations such as have point and lack triteness...
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.
Jason Berg
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Loomis Pound
Plato - there are three arts which are concerned with all...
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Kit Carson
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthu
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
Annie Sullivan
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
Patricia Roberts Harris
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.
Marylin Monroe
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.
Lavina Christensen Fugal
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
Blaise Pascal
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
Mohammed Ali
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.
Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
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
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Dame Edith Sitwell
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Gustav Jung
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
Luis Rodriguez, Always Running
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Val? ry