Art Quotes

Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
Max Lerne
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Ludwig von Beethoven
Tryon edwards - every parting is a form of death, as every...
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
Joan Winmill Brown
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walke
John masefield - there are few earthly things more beautiful than...
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Charles de gaulle - how can one conceive of a one - party system in a...
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.
Gerald R. Ford
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Aga
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
Moliere
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
Martin Luthe
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
Janet Long
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Clive Staples Lewis
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Bunyan
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
Chief Seattle
More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - - The acid, final test.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
Abraham Lincoln
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
Samuel C. Florman
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.
Annie Gottlie
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
Emmet Fox
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Archibald Mc Leish