Art Quotes

Quotations such as have point and lack triteness from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Louise Guiney

The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.

Alessandro Pronzato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Quida

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

George Burns

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Unknown

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".

Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.

Bob Hope

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beeche

The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.

Jean Anouilh

Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.

John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

David Letterman

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

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

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.

Dan Quayle

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell

To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.

Henry David Thoreau

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.

Thomas Campbell

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

John Ciardi

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Saying

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift