Art Quotes

Francis quarles - if thou desire the love of god and man, be...
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Agnes repplie - humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are...
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Sir Francis Bacon
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.
Charles De Gaulle
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.
Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
Richard Phillips Feynman
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
E. M. Cioran
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Robert Frost
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
Thomas Andrew Bailey
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
Aldous Huxley
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts