Art Quotes
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start.Jody Weintrau
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.John Burroughs
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.Aeschylus
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
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.Henry Anatole Grunwald
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.James Baldwin
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.A. N. Whitehead
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.George Gordon Byron
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.Mary Bertone
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.Ronald Reagan
My heart is pure as the driven slush.Tallulah Bankhead
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.Albert Einstein
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Shopenhaue
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann von Goethe
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.Jean Ke
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.Daniel Defoe
Politics is the art of the possible.Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.Fredrich Halm
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.Oscar Wilde
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.Frank Tibolt
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.Dorothy Nevill
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.Paul Gauguin
No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
