Art Quotes

Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Frank Moore Colby

You are not an artist, an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.

Eric Pio

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Art is I; science is we.

Claude Bernard

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius, Elegies

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. V. Lucas

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Zsa Zsa Gabo

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

Al Capone

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

I Ching

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Abbie Hoffman

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Randall Wallace

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.

Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John A. Locke

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.

George Eliot

If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. - - John F. Kennedy to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1962.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Horace Mann