Art Quotes
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.John Burroughs
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.Cicero
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.Denis Diderot
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.Charles Horton Cooley
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
Art is a lie that tells the truth.Pablo Picasso
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.Jesse Louis Jackson
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.Paul Klee
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.William Butler Yeats
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.Ludwig van Beethoven
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.Michael Dorris
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.Aristide Briand
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.Goldie Hawn
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.T. S. Eliot
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.Charles De Gaulle
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.Ecclesiastes
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.Unknown
If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Hellen Kelle
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.Anna Quindlen
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.Karen Blixen
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.Robert Green Ingersoll
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.Mickey Friedman
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.John Milton
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.Karl Kraus
