Art Quotes
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Henri Matisse
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Albert Camus
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Andy Warhol
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman
Art is science made clear.
Wilson Mizner
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis
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
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
Anish Kapoor
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom Wolfe
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Carroll O'Connor
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Anger Quotes
Anger Quotes
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Thomas Fuller
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Willard Gaylin
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell
He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mohandas Gandhi
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
Bede Jarrett
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Thomas Fuller
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Willard Gaylin
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell
He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mohandas Gandhi
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
Bede Jarrett
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
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Age Quotes
Age Quotes
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Cato
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan P. Smith
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
Bill Vaughan
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
Bill Vaughan
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Judith Viorst
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Cato
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan P. Smith
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
Bill Vaughan
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
Bill Vaughan
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Judith Viorst
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan
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