Art Quotes
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance.Frank Moore Colby
Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.Al Franken
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.Black Elk
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.Robert Fulghum
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.Anonymous
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
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.Joel Patrick Warneke
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.Johann von Goethe
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.Pablo Picasso
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.Marilyn Monroe
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.Frank Moore Colby
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.Henry David Thoreau
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.Pearl Buck
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.W. T. Ussery
Give your hearts, but not into each other? s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.Koran
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.George Jean Nathan
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.Gustave Flaubert
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.Elizabeth Bowen
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
Partying is such sweet sorrow.Robert Byrne
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Gandhi
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.Sir Winston Churchill
The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
