Famous Art Quote

Famous Art Quote

"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

"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

"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.
Unknown

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

"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."
Russell L(incoln) Ackoff

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern.
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Every class is unfit to govern."
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

"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

"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

"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

"My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today."
Richard Adams

"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

"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

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adamsv

"No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot."
Unknown

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
Aesop

"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

"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

"I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any."
Emma Albani

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
Muhammad Ali

"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

"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

"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

"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"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

"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

"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

A memory lasts forever, Never does it die. True friends stay together And never said goodbye.
Anon

Good bye, proud world! I’m going home, Thou art not my friend, I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.Unknown

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.
Tony Orlando