Art Quotes
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.Booker T. Washington
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.George Jessel
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.David Hume
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.Uta Hagan
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri Frdric Amiel
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.Alan Stewart Paton
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?George Bernard Shaw
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Buddha
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.Unknown
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.Jim Bishop
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.Max Eastman
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.Rmy de Gourmont
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.Thomas Carlye
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.Edna St. Vincent Millay
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Jim
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.Martin Luthe
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure - Thing boat never gets far from shore.Dale Carnegie
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.Marya Mannes
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.George MacDonald
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.Mark Twain
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.W. Somerset Maugham
This is the last of earth! I am content.John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
It sure does, Ben, it definitely does... this is definite... it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.Josh Billings
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - Never.Marguerite de Valois
