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ART QUOTES

"Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
-Al Capp (1909-79), U.S. cartoonist.

"The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form,
and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts".
-Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright

"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)

"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society."
-Man Ray (1890-1976)

"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
-David Hockney (b. 1937)

"I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"-Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet.

"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."-Picasso

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."-Degas

"As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied!
This isn't greed, though it might be appetite." -Lawrence Calcagno

"So you see, imagination needs moodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." -Brenda Ueland

"Keep your love of nature, for it is the way to understand art more and more."-Vincent Van Gogh

Education teaches us to sit up and look smart, but to be an artist
you have to crouch down and look stupid.-instructor, Haystack School

"Art is long and time is fleeting." -Longfellow

"Intense observation is as creative an act as invention." -Bonnard

"If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem" -William Carlos Williams

"Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank piece
of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." -Gene Fowler (1890-1960)

"A manuscript, like a fetus, is never improved by showing it to somebody before it is finished." -Unknown

"Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad;
and if you're not certain, try it on the cat." -Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969)

"Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the
person you are meant to be." -Dr. George Sheehan

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." -Thomas A. Edison

"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No artists starve who feed their passion." -Chuck Beals

"ART...It's too important to be left to the professionals!"-Chuck Beals

MORE QUOTES

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties?
How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"-Linda Ellerbee

"When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil."-M. Scott Peck

"Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow." -Philip Gulley

"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing
that let's us see each other with the remotest accuracy." -Martha Beck

"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."-Robert A. Heinlein

To See a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.-William Blake

"If everything is coming your way, You're in the wrong lane." -Unknown

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is a society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.-Lord Byron (1788-1824)

"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one." -Robert Neville

"Egotist: A person more....interested in himself than in me."-Ambrose Bierce

"Learn to wish that everything shall come to pass exactly as it does."-Epictetus

"Jerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off." -Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973)

"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly
in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency.
This makes me forever ineligible for any public office."-H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."-Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening at once."-Unknown

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." -Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would only do as I advise." -Gore Vidal

"Freedom is actually a bigger word than power. Power is what you can control.
Freedom is what you can unleash."-Unknown

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of." (Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.) -Pascal

"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction." -Salvador Dali

"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like no one is watching."-Unknown

"There is no method...you don't have to impose discipline. And that is
the beauty...if you only realize it. If you can see, you have nothing else to do,
because in that seeing, there is all discipline, all virtue, which is attention.
And in that seeing there is all beauty, and with beauty there is love.
Then when there is love you have nothing more to do. Then where you are you
have heaven; then all seeking comes to an end."-J. Krishnamurti

"Thou and I are too wise to love peaceably." -William Shakespeare

"Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion
grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts."-Garrison, Barbara

"One does not discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a very long time."-Andre Gide

"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"The factory of the future will have only two employees,
a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog.
The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
- Warren Bennis,
Author and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration,
University of Southern California.

"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something
great, they must look foolish to the crowd."-The I Ching

"Perhaps love is the process of my gently leading you back to yourself." -St. Exupéry

"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." - William James

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." -Charles Bukowski