Art Quotes

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
Colin raye - and if it all falls apart, i will know deep in my...
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Horace
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert frost - ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less...
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Diane frolov and andrew schneider, northern exposure, cicely, 1992 - we hold in our hands, the most precious gift of...
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Johann von Goethe
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.
Henry David Thoreau
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm
No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start.
Jody Weintrau
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that? s in it, And? you? ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?
Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
Molly Haskell
Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.
Paulson Frenckne
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
John Locke
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - If you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
Jean Ke
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
Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
Stephen Price
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.
John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - Never.
Marguerite de Valois
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Woody Allen
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy