Art Quotes

Henri frdric amiel - to know how to suggest is the art of teaching....
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
E. M. Cioran
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Amy lowell - art is the desire of a man to express himself, to...
Oswald mosley - there are periods in history when change is...
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
Eugene McCarthy
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Theresa
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
William Blake
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Clive Staples Lewis
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.
Hiram Powers
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
Vinet
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle, Metaphysica
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
W. B. Yeats, the second coming
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.
Nora Ephron
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.
Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.
Paulo Coelho, Brida
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Frances Burnett
When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Oscar Levant
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...
Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
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
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Rene Angelil
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Stephen Hawking
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent Van Gogh
Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Vauvenargues
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
Terry Josephson
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867