Art Quotes

Lucius annaeus seneca - courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -...
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
Elizabeth bowen - the heart may think it knows better the senses...
The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
Bill Bulko
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch, Morals
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
Horace - you have played enough you have eaten and drunk...
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Winston Churchhill
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
Marcus Garvey
When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.
Martin Luthe
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
Russell L. Ackoff
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
Bertrand Russell
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
Ferdinand Magellan
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.
Rich Hall, "Sniglets".
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac
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
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Stephen Hawking
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
J. Krishnamarti
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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
Plato
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
John Stuart Mill
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
Will Rogers
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck