Art Quotes

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Michael Talbot

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

Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Ludwig von Beethoven

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

Kelvin Throop

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Mignon McLaughlin

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

What an artist the world is losing in me.

Nero Claudius Caesa

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Dan Quayle

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

Martin Terman

Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?

Elayne Boosle

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillo

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.

Marcius Porcius Cato

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

B. B. Warfield

To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine.

Browning

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Julius Henry Marx

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.

Saint Augustine

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

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

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Robert Byrne

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

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy Sayers

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Russell L. Ackoff