Art Quotes

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Mao Zedong

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann von Goethe

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

The Soviet Union would remain a one - Party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - Because everyone would join that party.

Ronald Reagan

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all.

William Hart Coleridge

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Leo Rosten

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.

Albert Einstein

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

The great thing is the start - To see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - And him for nothing.

Robert Collie

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

Roger Zelazny

Bad mind, bad heart.

Anacharsis Cloots

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Erlich

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

Fernandez de Andrada

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

Willa Sibert Cathe

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 ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammad

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain