Art Quotes

Henry m. wriston - a guidance counselor who has made a fetish of...
I think, therefore Descartes exists.
Saul Steinberg
ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.
L. Ron Hubbard
Woody allen - interestingly, according to modern astronomers,...
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.
George Eliot
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Henry wadsworth longfellow - life is real life is earnest and the grave is not...
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - - A canvas - - A piece of film - - Or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - - That vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Edward Steichen
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle, Metaphysica
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....
Ian Shoales
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
Herbert W. Boyer, co - Founder of Genentech, Inc.
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Anonymous
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
William Drayton
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
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luthe
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
Aeschylus
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
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.
Charles Horton Cooley
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
Being a hero is about the shortest - Lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.
Author Unknown
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago