Art Quotes

John f. kennedy, introducing pablo casals at a white house dinner, november 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t - we believe that an artist, in order to be true to...
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
Vinet
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five - Cent nickel.
Franklin P. Adams
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis Mcginley
G. k. chesterton - virtue is not the absense of vices or the...
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Charles Baudelaire
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
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 always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
High living and high thinking are poles apart.
B. J. Gupta
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beeche
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
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
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Henry Ward Beeche
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingrid Bergman
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
John Hay
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Theresa
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Jim Beggs
I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Benito Perez Galdos
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
Pearl Buck
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.
William Hazlitt
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.
Bo Jackson
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.
Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.
Andrew Schneide
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie Hoffman
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter Lippmann