Art Quotes

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Lauren Bacall

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.

J. Krishnamutri

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

German prove

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Ronald Reagan

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.

Henry M. Wriston

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 learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Al Rogers

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.

Swami Sivanada

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

Kabbalah

If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. - - John F. Kennedy to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1962.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us - - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Aldous Huxley

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

Lewis Ward

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Pearl Buck

An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.

Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Scott Adams

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley