Art Quotes

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

James Thurbe

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Oscar Ameringe

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Edward Hubbell Chaplin

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Francis Quarles

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Alan Ashley - Pitt

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

G. K. Chesterton

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.

Patricia Roberts Harris

Give your hearts, but not into each other? s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.

T. S. Eliot

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).

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

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Saki

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

Kabbalah

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Francis Behan

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Anonymous

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Mark Twain