Art Quotes

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.

Unknown

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Edgar Albert Guest

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

Steven King, The Stand

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Garth Henrichs

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - - As long as I keep my senses, at least.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

W. J. Cameron

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Henry Kissinge

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

Lawrence Bixby

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

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliott

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

Sue Patton Thoele

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo C. Rosten

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

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.

Chinese Prove

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

James Baldwin

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Jeff Pesis

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

Moby, quoted on CNN. com, March 2005

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius