Art Quotes
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
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.Tod Johnson
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.Martin Terman
If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.Unknown
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works. N. B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219Ecclesiastes 97
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.Jesse Louis Jackson
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.Pablo Piccaso
There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.William Blake
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Soviet Union would remain a one - Party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - Because everyone would join that party.Ronald Reagan
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.Lord Byron
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.Marc Chagall
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.James Abram Garfield
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.John Kenneth Galbraith
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.Logan Pearsall Smith
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.Mark Twain
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.Annie Gottlie
All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.Suzanne Chapin
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.Phillips Brooks
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.Nora Ephron
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.Karl Marx
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.Virgil
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
