Art Quotes

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Galileo galilei - it has always seemed to me extreme...
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
Moby, quoted on CNN. com, March 2005
Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.
Paulson Frenckne
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.
Isak Dineson
Jerome k. jerome - i like work it fascinates me. i can sit and look...
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
Buddha - there are only two mistakes one can make along...
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Sir Philip Sidney
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
George J. Seidel
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
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
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
Elbert Hubbard
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Geri Weitzman
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Hardy D. Jackson
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
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.
Charles De Gaulle
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthu
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Hellen Kelle
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
American Prove
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
Bill Bulko
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fulle