Art Quotes

Thomas jefferson - it is part of the american character to consider...
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
Nietzsche
Thomas crum - what would it be like if you lived each day, each...
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Sir John Lubbock
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthu
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Lyndon B. Johnson
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Antonio Porchia, Voices
They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.
Edward Morgan Forste
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Tench Coxe
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
Epictetus
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
D. H. Lawrence
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.
Ralph Kine
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
Percy Wynham Lewis
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Tennessee Williams
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhaue
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.
Dorothy Sayers
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Denis Watley
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffe
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.
Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.
LaDawnna Burnett (1975 -), Letters on Ethics
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
American Prove
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.
Francois Delsarte
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fulle
I think, therefore Descartes exists.
Saul Steinberg