Art Quotes

Sir winston churchill - although prepared for martyrdom, i preferred that...
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
Ella wheele - laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you...
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
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
Sue Patton Thoele
Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can.
Anon.
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
Charles E. Jefferson
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.
Donald O. Rickte
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.
Honore de Balzac
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Sir William Osle
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
Helen Steiner Rice
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The Dhammapada
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon
As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.
Maitri Upanishads
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.
W. Edward Brown
Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
Mark Twain
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
Lord Billingsley
I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Benito Perez Galdos
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
Cindy Lew
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Kelle
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.
Karin Mei? enburg, translator and autho
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.
Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
Marcus Garvey
A gentle word is never lost... It cheers the heart when sorrow - Tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.
Hastings