Art Quotes

Homer, the iliad - hateful to me as the gates of hades is that man...
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.
Marcius Porcius Cato
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
George bernard shaw - a lifetime of happiness no man alive could bear...
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
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Saadi
The wicked at heart probably know something.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
John Updike
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Swami Sivanada
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beeche
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.
Roosevelt, Eleano
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
Chinese Prove
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
George J. Seidel
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.
Robin Tyle
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
Thomas Mann
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.
Gerald R. Ford