Art Quotes

No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
Ernest hemingway - but did thee feel the earth move?...
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
William Hart Coleridge
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
Barbara M. White
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
Sir Philip Sidney
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
Cornelius Tacitus
Macduff - prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs,...
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.
Johathan Edwards
A. whitney brown - our bombs are smarter than the average high...
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali
Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Geri Weitzman
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Aga
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
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
Alan Marshall Beck
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
Mark Twain
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides.
Arthur Schnabel
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.
Pietro Aretino
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer, The Iliad
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
Lawrence Bixby
Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.
LaDawnna Burnett, (1975 -), Letters on Ethics
Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.
Henry Tuckerman
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown