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| The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. Leonard Bernstein Quotes |
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| 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 Quotes |
| Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler Quotes |
| Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler Quotes |
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| Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp Quotes |
| What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. Thomas Crum Quotes |
| True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide Quotes |
| No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems. Socrates Quotes |
| To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. George Washington Quotes |
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| Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow Quotes |
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| Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Vincent Van Gogh Quotes |
| All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler Quotes |
| The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. T S Eliot Quotes |
| Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
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| Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. Cicero Quotes |
| Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
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| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams Quotes |
| The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly. Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes |
| The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion. Pierre-August Renoir Quotes |
| A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so? Author Unknown Quotes |
| The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expres Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. Michele Shea Quotes |
| Art has never been made while thinking of art. Author Unknown Quotes |
| I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles Quotes |
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| Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all. Rudolph Arnheim Quotes |
| All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. James Baldwin Quotes |
| The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! --this is the task of execution. The hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind. Honore de Balzac Quotes |
| "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare. John Berger Quotes |
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| I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.... John Berger Quotes |
By art he gladly found what he did seek,
A full requital of his striving pain.
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure:
A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. Anne Dudley Bradstreet Quotes |
| Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. Sir Thomas Browne Quotes |
No sketches first, no studies, that’s long past:
I do what many dream of all their lives,
Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive - you don’t know how The Others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat, -
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) - so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged. Robert Browning Quotes |
| “Less is more” is said to have been one of the favorite maxims of architect Mies van der Rohe. Robert Browning Quotes |
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| "Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." Albert Camus Quotes |
| The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it. Albert Camus Quotes |
| [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp Quotes |
| May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air. Paul Cézanne Quotes |
| "When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art." Marc Chagall Quotes |
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| "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 Quotes |
| "Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else." Leonardo DaVinci Quotes |
| Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting. Leonardo DaVinci Quotes |
| Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of “quaint,” and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive. Northrop Frye Quotes |
| "In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters." Paul Gauguin Quotes |
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| "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| “Now too we perceive to what extent the relation of art to truth must be a discordance for Nietzsche and for his philosophy, as inverted Platonism. Discordance is present only where the elements which sever the unity of their
belonging-together diverge from one another by virtue of that very unity. The unity of their belonging-together is granted by one reality, perspectival shining. To it belong both apparition and the scintillating appearance as transfiguration. In order for the real (the living creature) to be real, it must on the one hand enscone itself within a particular horizon, thus perduring in the illusion of truth. But in order for the real to remain real, it must simultaneously transfigure itself by going beyond itself, surpassing itself in the scintillation of what is created in art—and that means it has to advance against the truth. While truth and art are proper to the essence of reality with equal originality, they must diverge from one another and go counter to one another.” Martin Heidegger Quotes |
| While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. Ian Hornak Quotes |
| “We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art.” Henry James Quotes |
| Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. James Joyce Quotes |
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| I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. Helen Keller Quotes |
"On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying. The Italian Renaissance is a period of artistic decadence. Those men, devoid of their predecessors' inventiveness, thought they were stronger as imitators-that is false. Art must be free in its inventiveness, it must raise us above too much reality. This is its goal, whether it is poetry or painting. The plastic life, the picture, is made up of harmonious relationships among volumes, lines, and colors. These are the three forces that must govern works of art. If, in organizing these three essential elements harmoniously, one finds that objects, elements of reality, can enter into the composition, it may be better and may give the work more richness. But they must be subordinated to the three essential elements mentioned above. Modern work thus takes a point of view directly opposed to academic work. Academic work puts the subject first and relegates pictorial values to a secondary level, if there is room.
For us others, it is the opposite. Every canvas, even if nonrepresentational, that depends on harmonious relationships of the three forces-color, volume, and line-is a work of art.
I repeat, if the object can be included without shattering the governing structure, the canvas is enriched.
Sometimes these relationships are merely decorative when they are abstract. But if objects figure in the composition-free objects with a genuine plastic value-pictures result that have as much variety and profundity as any with an imitative subject. Fernand Leger Quotes |
| "Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness." Percy Wynham Lewis Quotes |
| "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." Hendrik Willem Van Loon Quotes |
| "Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is." Henri Matisse Quotes |
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| The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience. Yehudi Menuhin Quotes |
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows. Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes |
| "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes |
"Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."
Fr., "A sketch is better than a long speech." Napoleon Quotes |
| "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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| Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief – that it is not possible to live with truth, that the “will to truth” is already a symptom of degeneration. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| "The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art— an attitude all too rare at universities these days. Students who read Clark will be safely inoculated against the worst excesses of feminist theory, with its prattle about "objectification" and "the male gaze" — terms cooked up by ideologues with glaringly little knowledge or feeling for art." Camille Anna Paglia Quotes |
| "Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| "Give me a museum, and I'll fill it." Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings. Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes |
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| Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people—quite terrific to such, if they are capable of terror, and hateful to them, if they are capable of nothing higher than hatred… I say the first inheritance is Tenderness -- the second Truth, because the Tenderness is in the make of the creature, the Truth in his acquired habits and knowledge; besides, the love comes first in dignity as well as in time, and that is always pure and complete: the truth, at best, imperfect. John Ruskin Quotes |
| From: "An Inaugural Lecture," Delivered at the Kensington Museum, January, 1858. John Ruskin Quotes |
| "All art is but imitation of nature." Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younge Quotes |
| "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." William Shakespeare Quotes |
Beauty was darkness till she came.
Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the former shadows bright,
And with their every beam supply
New day, to draw her picture by. James Shirley Quotes |
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| Art is the signature of civilizations. Beverly Sills Quotes |
Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing else.
They are yellow forms
Composed of curves
Bulging toward the base.
They are touched red.
They are not flat surfaces
Having curved outlines.
They are round
Tapering toward the top.
In the way they are modelled
There are bits of blue.
A hard dry leaf hangs
From the stem.
The yellow glistens.
It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Flowering over the skin.
The shadows of the pears
Are blobs on the green cloth.
The pears are not seen
As the observer wills. Wallace Stevens Quotes |
| "I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" Igor Stravinsky Quotes |
| "Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost." Mary C. Taylor Quotes |
| Source: Watercolor Bold and Free; by Lawrence C. Goldsmith; Watson-Guptill Publications; New York, 1980; p. 62 Mary C. Taylor Quotes |
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| I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. Vincent van Gogh Quotes |
| Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton Quotes |
| "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. George E. Woodberry Quotes |
| Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
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| Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important. Lin Yutang Quotes |
| Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual. Nickolas Muray Quotes |
| Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent Quotes |
| To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce Quotes |
| All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. M. C. Richards Quotes |
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| The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it. Author Unknown Quotes |
| What we play is life. Louis Armstrong Quotes |
| We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. George Tooker Quotes |
| What I dream of is an art of balance. Henri Matisse Quotes |
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| Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
| Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests. David Cronenberg Quotes |
| The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. David Cronenberg Quotes |
| If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider Quotes |
| Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa Quotes |
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| I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. Frida Kahlo Quotes |
| I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it. Federico Fellini Quotes |
| Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Eugene Delacroix Quotes |
| Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. E. M. Forster Quotes |
| I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington Quotes |
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| Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? Edith Wharton Quotes |
| Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
| I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. Ben Shahn Quotes |
| Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes Quotes |
| So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland Quotes |
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| I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. Charles Rosin Quotes |
| I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned. Brooke McEldowney Quotes |
| It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again. Author Unknown Quotes |
| A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmond de Goncourt Quotes |
| Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide Quotes |
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| Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell Quotes |
| Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius Quotes |
| Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. G.K. Chesterton Quotes |
| Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. Marie Laurencin Quotes |
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| Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. James Bailey Quotes |
| All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you. Uniek Swain Quotes |
| A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo Quotes |
| Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. Jules Feiffer Quotes |
| Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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| The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. Dante Alighieri Quotes |
| Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. Jean Cocteau Quotes |
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| Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer. Star Richés Quotes |
| The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle Quotes |
| The question of common sense is always what is it good for? - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. James Russell Lowell Quotes |
| While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. Odilon Redon Quotes |
| Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| A man and his art are like a fool and his king. Corri Alius Quotes |
| I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. Claes Oldenburg Quotes |
| Art is a kind of illness. Giacomo Puccini Quotes |
| A great artist is always before his time or behind it. George Moore Quotes |
| An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash. Dena Groquet Quotes |
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| For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. William McElcheran Quotes |
| An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. Jean Cocteau Quotes |
| The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. Alfred Tonnelle Quotes |
| A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus Quotes |
| An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's. Holden Rinehart Quotes |
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| If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. Adeline Cullen Ray Quotes |
| Grammar stops at love, and at art. Valentine Sterling Quotes |
| The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. André Malraux Quotes |
| An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. Paul Valéry Quotes |
| Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather Quotes |
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| A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. G.K. Chesterton Quotes |
| An artist's career always begins tomorrow. James McNeill Whistler Quotes |
| Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. Edmond & Jules de Goncourt Quotes |
| Art is not a thing; it is a way. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
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| Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. Lincoln Steffens Quotes |
| An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana Quotes |
| What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. Augustus Saint-Gaudens Quotes |
| Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. Agnes Repplier Quotes |
| Art disturbs, science reassures. Georges Braque Quotes |
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| Art is the struggle to understand. Audrey Foris Quotes |
| As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. John Lubbock Quotes |
| It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. Loren Eiseley Quotes |
| Art is spirituality in drag. Jennifer Yane Quotes |
| Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
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| What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather Quotes |
| Art hath an enemy called ignorance. Ben Jonson Quotes |
| God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. Mark Stevens Quotes |
| Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
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| Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. Jean Paul Richter Quotes |
| All great art comes from a sense of outrage. Glenn Close Quotes |
| If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. Robin Tyler Quotes |
| Art is the triumph over chaos. John Cheever Quotes |
| Art is pictures straight from the heart. Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999 Quotes |
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| Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination. Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999 Quotes |
| Art is an adventure that never seems to end. Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999 Quotes |
| Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999 Quotes |
| Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999 Quotes |
| Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999 Quotes |
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| Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan Quotes |
| The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas. Dena Groquet Quotes |
| I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. Henri Matisse Quotes |
| Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. Ernst Levy Quotes |
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| Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. John Anthony Ciardi Quotes |
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As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes |
| Art is... Aaron Howard Quotes |
| There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T.S. Eliot Quotes |
| God and other artists are always a little obscure. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. Georges Rouault Quotes |
| Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. Andy Warhol Quotes |
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| The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. Kenneth Tynan Quotes |
| What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. John Updike Quotes |
| The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. Henry Miller Quotes |
| No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Let me ask you something, what is not art? Author Unknown Quotes |
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| When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" Howard Ikemoto Quotes |
| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. G.K. Chesterton Quotes |
| Great art picks up where nature ends. Marc Chagall Quotes |
| Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. Fran Lebowitz Quotes |
| But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. The New Yorker Quotes |
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| Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. Wynetka Ann Reynolds Quotes |
| Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. André Gide Quotes |
| Pictures must not be too picturesque. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. Henry Moore Quotes |
| Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Degas Quotes |
| Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America Quotes |
| The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. Paul Strand Quotes |
| All art requires courage. Anne Tucker Quotes |
| To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, Quotes |
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| I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. Henri Matisse Quotes |
| An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Charles Horton Cooley Quotes |
| Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes |
| We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. Schumann Quotes |
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| It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. Kojiro Tomita Quotes |
| Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp Quotes |
| The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner Quotes |
| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| Painting is silent poetry. Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry Quotes |
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| Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. Jackson Pollock Quotes |
| It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void. Jadelr and Cristina Cordova Quotes |
| You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands. Jeff Melvoin Quotes |
| It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. Jeff Melvoin Quotes |
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| Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. William Wordsworth Quotes |
| Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irespective of size or wealth. Vita Sackville-West Quotes |
| Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing. William S. Burroughs Quotes |
| The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul. Thomas Moore Quotes |
| Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine. Magdalena Abakanowicz Quotes |
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| There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant Quotes |
| My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. Ralph Sockman Quotes |
| There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Richard Avedon Quotes |
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| Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
| Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. Rollo May Quotes |
| Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. Sir Walter Scott Quotes |
| A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure. Theodore Adorno Quotes |
| Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. Magdalena Abakanowicz Quotes |
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| Art is the only thing you cannot Punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises. Leonytne Price Quotes |
| The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. Joseph Campbell Quotes |
| Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Way Julia Cameron Quotes |
| I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams Quotes |
| There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! Jean de La Bruyère Quotes |
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| Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems. Helen M. Winslow Quotes |
| Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. Goethe Quotes |
| Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. Ezra Pound Quotes |
| Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. Elizabeth Murray Quotes |
| I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals. Denise Levertov Quotes |
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| Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Daniel Barenboim Quotes |
| Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. Carl Jung Quotes |
| Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. [1804] Benjamin Constant Quotes |
| I find working with glass meditative, almost therapeutic. I can leave the world behind, and focus... The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made. Andrew Kuntz Quotes |
| But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. Geoffrey F. Abert Quotes |
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| But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. Geoffrey F. Abert Quotes |
| Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance. M. I. Abramowitz Quotes |
| To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. Russell L(incoln) Ackoff Quotes |
| The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Quotes |
| I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams Quotes |
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| You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
| Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. James Truslow Adams Quotes |
| My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. Richard Adams Quotes |
| The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Richard Adams Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. Scott Adams Quotes |
| We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. Scott Adams Quotes |
| Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. Scott Adams Quotes |
| 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. William Adams Quotes |
| Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Joseph Addison Quotes |
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| There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. Æschylus Quotes |
| Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. Æschylus Quotes |
| A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop Quotes |
| When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. Akhenaton Quotes |
| Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. Akhenaton Quotes |
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| I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. Emma Albani Quotes |
| Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot. Robert B. Altman Quotes |
| 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 Ameringer Quotes |
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| To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be Swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance. Joan Wester Anderson Quotes |
| No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. Marian Anderson Quotes |
| For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief. Fernandez de Andrada Quotes |
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| Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist. Rene Angelil Quotes |
| If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy Sting?' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.' Maya Angelou Quotes |
| Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. Jean Anouilh Quotes |
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| This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. Dr. Arbthnot Quotes |
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| Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth. Archimedes Quotes |
| Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art. Pietro Aretino Quotes |
| A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. Pietro Aretino Quotes |
| Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. Aristotle Quotes |
| ...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Matthew Arnold Quotes |
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| Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. Oren Arnold Quotes |
| In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. Elizabeth Ashley Quotes |
| University President: "Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. Reubin Askew Quotes |
| Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Saint Francis of Assisi Quotes |
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| 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. Paul Aubuchon Quotes |
| We are here on earth to do good for others. What The Others are here for, I don't know. Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes |
| Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God. Saint Augustine Quotes |
| Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness. Saint Augustine Quotes |
| The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
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| Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. Ausonius Quotes |
| No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high. Harriet Du Autermont Quotes |
| Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. "You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight. Sri da Avabhas Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. Richard David Bach Quotes |
| It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. Baha'u'llah Quotes |
| A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Pearl Bailey Quotes |
| Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. Philip James Bailey Quotes |
| Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled. Thomas Andrew Bailey Quotes |
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| Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all. Scott Bairstow Quotes |
| Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. Lucille Ball Quotes |
| True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
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| He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| What is art? Nature concentrated. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. Maurice Baring Quotes |
| It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of The Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God. Albert Coombs Barnes Quotes |
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| Karate is a form of Martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. Dave Barry Quotes |
| In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home. Dave Barry Quotes |
| I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. Dave Barry Quotes |
| Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Martin Barzun Quotes |
| Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Jacques Martin Barzun Quotes |
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| Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Isaac Bashevis Quotes |
| The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. Jean Baudrillard Quotes |
| Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings. Vicki Baum Quotes |
| Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do. Vivian Baxter Quotes |
| Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes |
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| [On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage:] It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together. Walter Beakel Quotes |
| The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. Luther Bear Quotes |
| When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred. Sun Bear Quotes |
| Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies. Romare Beardon Quotes |
| No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. Alan Marshall Beck Quotes |
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| A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad! Alan Marshall Beck Quotes |
| A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.' Alan Marshall Beck Quotes |
| Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart-even when they are sitting in the mud, or crying temperamental tears, or parading up the street in mother's best clothes. Alan Marshall Beck Quotes |
| Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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| Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| What we say is important...in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Jim Beggs Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| The part can never be well unless the whole is well. Saul Bellow Quotes |
| Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. Saint Benedict Quotes |
| It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. (Enoch) Arnold Bennett Quotes |
| If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, 'You promised to pay for my tuition at Harvard; how about giving me $50,000 instead to start a little business?' I might think that was a good idea. William John Bennett Quotes |
| Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. Warren G. Bennis Quotes |
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| From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues. Jason Berg Quotes |
| No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. Ingrid Bergman Quotes |
| The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. Irving Quotes |
| To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry Quotes |
| There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. Mary Bertone Quotes |
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| I wasn't put on this Earth to make you feel like a man. Mary Bertone Quotes |
| Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Derek Bethune Quotes |
| The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes |
| 'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said. 'It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.' Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco Quotes |
| Comfort ye, my people; speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad; and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken. Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible Quotes |
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| I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. John 17:4 Bible Quotes |
| My son, give me thine heart... Proverbs 23:26a Bible Quotes |
| Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5 Bible Quotes |
| I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord. Psalm 27: 13-14 Bible Quotes |
| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings Quotes |
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| The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service. Lord Billingsley Quotes |
| Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty. Rose Elizabeth Bird Quotes |
| The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Jim Quotes |
| I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple Black Quotes |
| Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. Black Elk Quotes |
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| For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. William Blake Quotes |
| Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake. William Blake Quotes |
| Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. Rachel Blanchard Quotes |
| May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. Irish Blessing Quotes |
| The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road. Karen Blixen Quotes |
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| The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important. Milo Bloom Quotes |
| You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action. William Bolitho Quotes |
| No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness. Robert Oxton Bolt Quotes |
| People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. Victor Borge Quotes |
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| The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon Quotes |
| Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind. Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes |
| The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
| It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights. Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
| The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still. George Seaton Bowes Quotes |
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| I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life. Malcolm Boyd Quotes |
| I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living. Hal Quotes |
| Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach. Hal Quotes |
| That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. Ray Douglas Bradbury Quotes |
| Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. F. H. Bradley Quotes |
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| It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents. General Omar Nelson Bradley Quotes |
| Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. Stewart Brand Quotes |
| Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt Quotes |
| The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. Aristide Briand Quotes |
| When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge Quotes |
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| For aesthetics is the mother of ethics…. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens. Joseph Brodsky Quotes |
| Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. Charlotte Bronte Quotes |
| Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise. Phillips Brooks Quotes |
| The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the Jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung. Phillips Brooks Quotes |
| The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. Dr. Joyce Quotes |
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| Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. A. Whitney Brown Quotes |
| A wise man keeps secrets in his heart; a foolish man tells tales. Anne Brown Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party! Les(ter Louis) Brown Quotes |
| Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.' Art Buchwald Quotes |
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| The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes |
| Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes |
| There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes |
| To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes |
| It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle. (Carl) Frederick Buechner Quotes |
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| The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. |
