Art Quotes

O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo.

William Shakespeare

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butle

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antonin Scalia

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

George Gissing

Being a hero is about the shortest - Lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Marcel Duchamp

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Llama

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.

Anacharsis Cloots

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Nikita Khrushchev

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

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

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Clark Hoove

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Phillips Feynman

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

E. M. Forste

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.

John Gillespie Magee

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

Jeff Meye

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Harold Geneen

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.

Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54

You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - - A canvas - - A piece of film - - Or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - - That vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

Edward Steichen