Art Quotes

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone

If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.

Will Rogers

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy Sayers

Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass.

So I Married an Axe Murdere

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo DaVinci, (maybe)

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.

Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Vauvenargues

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Kelle

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

Rachel Blanchard

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Hilton Krame

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface

A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

Dan Seligman