Art Quotes

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry G. Stott, 1907

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.

Clive Staples Lewis

A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.

Steven Wright

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

Henry Ward Beeche

Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

This Is Spinal Tap

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. - - John F. Kennedy to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1962.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bad mind, bad heart.

Anacharsis Cloots

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".

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

Blaine Lee

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjlmur Stefnsson

I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Woodrow Wilson

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.

Plato

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme

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

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

George Will

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Unknown

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild

Art is I; science is we.

Claude Bernard

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Michael J. Gel

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

B. J. Gupta

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

Henry David Thoreau

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Oscar Levant

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix