Art Quotes

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

Samuel C. Florman

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

The Land Before Time

The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius, History

pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

Jeff Meye

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

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

Joseph Bonaparte

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo C. Rosten

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammad

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Prove

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Lewis Ward

Everyone is the age of their heart.

Guatemalan Prove

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

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

Al Capone

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

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Malcom Mclaren

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

Charles Dickens

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

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

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

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliott

As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.

Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.

Bob Allisat

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...

William Wadsworth

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

E. M. Cioran