Art Quotes

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osle
Dean koontz, watchers - although the constant shadow of certain death...
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - If you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
Jean Ke
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant
James madison, federalist 10 - liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an...
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
Ralph waldo emerson - a sect or party is an elegant incognito devised...
We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.
Pietro Aretino
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Horace
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Albert Einstein
A heart that loves is always young.
Greek Prove
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave Barry
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp
Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
Patricia Roberts Harris
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
Charles M. Schwa
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radne
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
H. W. Dodds
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.
Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
Aristide Briand
The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Arthur Baldwin
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
Whittaker Chambers
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Thomas Tusse
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature".
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson, (attributed)
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
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.
Robert Collie
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.
Rudyard Kipling