Art Quotes

Unknown - if an artist is not able to commit himself...
Laurence sterne - a large volume of adventures may be grasped...
I used to wake up at 4 A. M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurbe
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.
Zig Zigla
George whitefield - we are immortal until our work on earth is done....
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
M. C. Richards
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
James Joseph Sylveste
California, the department store state.
Raymond Chandle
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
Henry David Thoreau
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
William Shakespeare
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
A lie travels farther than the truth.
Irish Prove
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
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Thomas Tusse
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
Kahlil Gibran
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.
Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
Pearl Buck
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.
Macduff
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butle
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
Saint Augustine, Confessions
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.
Henry David Thoreau
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George Gissing
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson