Art Quotes

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.

Gerald R. Ford

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

Francis Beaumont

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Anon.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Henry Beston

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

A. E. Hotchne

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina G. Rossetti

Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.

Arnold Bennett

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

Louise Driscoll

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

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

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald Mc Leish

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

The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.

W. Edward Brown

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Leo Rosten

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Dr. Arbthnot

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Oscar Levant

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjlmur Stefnsson

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

Charles de Gaulle

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Mort Sahl

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - - As long as I keep my senses, at least.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Don Schula

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr Martin Luther King.

Ramsey Clark