Art Quotes

How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.

Charles de Gaulle

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

W. H. Auden

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

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

John Ruskin

Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.

Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles, 1966

Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

Ralph Kine

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend.

Ronnie Hawkins

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

Miguel de Cervantes

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.

William Hazlitt

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

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Mount Hufstedle

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

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

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain

Listen to your heart, because in the end it is your heart that matters.

Jennifer Tyle

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Clive Staples Lewis

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann von Goethe

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

South

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wife: a former sweetheart.

H. L. Mencken

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The family is the country of the heart.

Giuseppe Mazzini

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James