Art Quotes

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.

J. Krishnamutri

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

William Inge

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Samuel Butle

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

I Ching

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

Omaha Prove

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.

Hellen Kelle

Repetition is the death of art.

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

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Sir Philip Sidney

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Archibald Cox

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Alfred Victor Vigny

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

Roger Zelazny

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthu

People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Anton Chekhov

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

Shneur Zalman

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Randall Wallace

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Jim Davis

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

J. K. Galbraith

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Karl Rove, March 19, 2001