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Artful Quotes (page 134)

Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "One thing a man must have: either a naturally light..."
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And too often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd; By thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in... William Shakespeare
Steve Martin quote: "Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them..."
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. Steve Martin
Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady? Leonora Carrington
Albert Einstein quote: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious...."
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"- Albert Einstein Albert Einstein
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Thomas Hobbes
John Keats quote: "Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself."
Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself. John Keats
I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. Kurt Vonnegut
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways. Rudolf Arnheim
Nick Hornby quote: "Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a..."
Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected. Nick Hornby
I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart, As a man calls for wine before he fights, I asked one draught of earlier, happier sights, Ere fitly I could hope to play my part. Think first, fight afterwards, the soldier’s art: One taste of the old time sets all to rights. Robert Browning
If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy, pure and sublime, anything answering that immoderate desire for the infinite and the vague that we call the soul, it is art. Gustave Flaubert
What of art? It is a malady."Love? An illusion. Religion? The fashionable substitute for belief. What are you? To define is to limit. Oscar Wilde
John Grisham quote: "Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned..."
Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing. John Grisham
Fran Lebowitz quote: "Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject..."
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. Fran Lebowitz

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