Art Quotes

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

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

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.

Elisha Potte

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five - Cent nickel.

Franklin P. Adams

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann von Goethe

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Unknown

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

Kenneth Star... has done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.

Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

South

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Living together is an art.

William Pickens

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I. vii

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

Daniel Defoe

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Martin Barzun

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca, Epistulae Morales

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

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

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Pearl Buck

Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.

Gaius Julius Caesa

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Samuel Adams

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Mort Sahl

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920