Art Quotes

L. m. k. boelter, 1957 - engineers participate in the activities which...
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix
Helen steiner rice - love changes darkness into light and makes the...
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
George Burns
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.
George Bernard Shaw
High living and high thinking are poles apart.
B. J. Gupta
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
George Farquha
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
William osle - there is no more difficult art to acquire than...
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
Dio Lewis
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
What I dream of is an art of balance.
Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno
Art is I; science is we.
Claude Bernard
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Saul Bellow
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
Blaise Pascal
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Ellen Gilcrist
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald Spengle
There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.
Venezuelan Prove
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
La Rochefoucauld
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr Martin Luther King.
Ramsey Clark
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
My son, give me thine heart...
Proverbs 2326a Bible
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.
George Carlin
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint Augustine
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
Archibald Cox