Art Quotes

Novalis - the artist belongs to his work, not the work to...
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!
Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
Quotations such as have point and lack triteness from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
Louise Guiney
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
Sir Philip Sidney
Marcel proust - only through art can we emerge from ourselves and...
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beeche
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Julius Henry Marx
It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.
Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
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
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
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
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Blessing Irish
Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
Albert Einstein
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfou
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
Andy Warhol
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.
Donald O. Rickte
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Alexander Pope
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Saadi
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne
Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Homer, The Odyssey
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
Matthew Green (c. 1737)