Art Quotes

John milton - when the waves are round me breaking, as i pace...
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
Henri - fr? d? ric amiel - you desire to know the art of living, my friend?...
Marcus aurelius antoninus - this being of mine, whatever it really is,...
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
Bill Bulko
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...
Chief Seattle
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
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.
Scott Adams
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.
Galileo Galilei
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
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
Joseph Addison
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
Bertrand Russell
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
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.
E. C. Stedman
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
The Dhammapada
An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.
Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
Ernest Dimnet
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Sir John Lubbock
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg