Art Quotes

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holme

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Gerald R. Ford

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Tshunka Witko

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.

Christian Cardell Corbet

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

David Letterman

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Unknown

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

Andrew Schneide

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

Steven Runciman

To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.

Bob Allisat

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.

James Madison

Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Clive Staples Lewis

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Phillips Feynman

People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Anton Chekhov

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.

Suzanne Chapin

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Gandhi

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2