Art Quotes

Pablo picasso - the artist is a receptacle for emotions that come...
To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.
Bob Allisat
Benjamin disraeli - man is a being born to believe. and if no church...
Henry kissinge - it was a greek tragedy. nixon was fulfilling his...
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
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
Henry Beston
All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.
Sir Robert Owen
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
G. C. Lichtenberg
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.
Franz Kafka
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Dryden
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it - - who can say this is not greatness.
William Makepeace Thackeray
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
Russell L. Ackoff
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Sir Winston Churchill
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii
Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.
Pablo Picasso
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
Hugh Prathe
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.
Steven Runciman
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
Christina G. Rossetti
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.
Anthony Robbins
May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Blessing Irish
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
I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Francis Behan