Art Quotes

Leo c. rosten - happiness comes only when we push our brains and...
Henry wadsworth longfellow - men of genius are often dull and inert in...
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Kelle
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffe
Henry ward beeche - young love is a flame; very pretty, often very...
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Alexander Pope
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
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Julius Henry Marx
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.
W. Edward Brown
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.
Annie Gottlie
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andr Gide
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works. N. B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219
Ecclesiastes 97
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!
Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.
Venezuelan Prove
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
E. M. Forste
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Learned Hand, jurist
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.
Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.
Hiram Powers