Art Quotes

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Aristotle, Metaphysica

We only part to meet again.

John Gay

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

General Omar Nelson Bradley

I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Mark Twain

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

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

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Thomas Crum

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

We shall not 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

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

John Updike

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

Dan Seligman

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato, The Republic

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato, The Republic

Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

A large part of virtue consists in good habits.

William Paley

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

H. S. Thompson