Art Quotes

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Abraham maslow - a musician must make music, an artist must paint,...
Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald Spengle
Thomas mann - the only religious way to think of death is as a...
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby
Macduff - prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs,...
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
William Shakespeare
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arab Prove
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
Bertrand Russell
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Dave Wine
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.
George Seaton Bowes
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch, Morals
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
Black Elk
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.
Arabic Prove
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson, (attributed)
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
Bill Bulko
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
John Updike
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud