Art Quotes

Alan j. perlis - a year spent in artificial intelligence is enough...
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richte
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
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
Robyn davidson - the two important things i did learn were that...
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Hellen Kelle
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Albert Einstein
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale
Hear me, my chiefs I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Langbridge Morgan
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...
David Gridley, Indiantown
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Thomas Carlyle
There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
Archimedes (ca. 235 bc)
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Louis Jackson
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Brenda Ueland
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.
Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
We shall never 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
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
James Thurbe
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Dame Edith Sitwell
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.
Henry Seely
There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt