Art Quotes

Socrates - be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art...
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.
Unknown
In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.
Henri Cartier - Bresson
Sir ronald a. fishe - our view... is that it is an essential...
Betty smith - look at everything as though you were seeing it...
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.
Navajo Chant
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
W. B. Yeats, the second coming
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Sir Walter Scott
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year - - - Everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operato
God is seated in the hearts of all.
Bhagavad Gita
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Sir Winston Churchill
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frdric Amiel
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Sir John Lubbock
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Val? ry
If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.
Unknown
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
Pablo Picasso
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Clive Staples Lewis
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
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.
Rollo May
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
J Danforth Quayle
There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibbe
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them.
Jules Feiffe
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
William Shakespeare
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.
Unknown
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.
Portuguese Prove
Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato