Art Quotes

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo

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

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure - Thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.

Clive Staples Lewis

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Pauline Kael

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

Cesare Pavese

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.

Author Unknown

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

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

Al Capone

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Milo Bloom

Each body has its art...

Gwendolyn Brooks

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Unknown

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003

I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.

Joseph Bonaparte

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Sir Walter Scott

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.

George D. Prentice

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Loukes

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napolean Hill

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

Jim Samuels

Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats

There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore