Art Quotes

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

Janet Long

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

Henry Tuckerman

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Marge Piercy

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight D. Morrow

Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Ludwig von Beethoven

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Brenda Ueland

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Prove

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.

Charlotte Bronte

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Karen Lam

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Robert Fulghum

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When I was one - And - Twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away. Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. But I was one - And - Twenty, No use to talk to me.

A. E. Houseman

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Henry David Thoreau

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

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

To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.

Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)

It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.

Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin