Art Quotes
High living and high thinking are poles apart.B. J. Gupta
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.Frank Moore Colby
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.Lucretius
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.Susanne Lange
The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.Edwin Markham
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.Unknown
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.George Moore
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...William Shakespeare
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.Kitaro Nishida
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.George Farquha
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.Ernest Dimnet
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.Mohammed Ali
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.Josh Billings
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.Johann Georg Zimmermann
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.William Butler Yeats
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...Alfred E. Newman
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.Kahlil Gibran
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.Louis Kronenberge
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215
Where you start is not as important as where you finish.Zig Zigla
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
