Art Quotes

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - And both commonly succeed, and are right.

H. L. Mencken

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3. 6. 7]

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Alan Marshall Beck

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

George F. Will

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.

Koran

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

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer, The Iliad

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

James Baldwin

Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

I am a part of all I have seen.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A child is the root of the heart.

Maria de Jesus

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

Dante Alighieri

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Thomas Carlye

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - Particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

Woody Allen

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Cindy Lew

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.

Christian Cardell Corbet

I am a part of all I have read.

John Kieran

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Alan Ashley - Pitt

The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.

Alessandro Pronzato

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Cornelius Tacitus