Art Quotes
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.Sophocles
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.William Shakespeare
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.William Osle
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.Philip Johnson
Art is anything you can get away with.Andy Warhol
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.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]
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.John Andrew Holmes
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.Eugene Delacroix
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.Tom Blai
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.Johann von Goethe
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.Lyndon B. Johnson
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.Jim Ryun
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.Nora Ephron
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.Plutarch, Morals
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.William Faulkne
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.Isaac Asimov
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.Rmy de Gourmont
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.William Shakespeare
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.Martin Luthe
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Pete
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides.Arthur Schnabel
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs
Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.Ecclesiastes
