Art

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  • What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold 'precious,' and earth and soil 'base'? People who do this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. It is scarcity and plenty that make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not exchange one for ten barrels of water.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  • A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
        John Singer Sargent   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
        Nora Ephron   Best?
  • Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.
        Nathan Campbell   Best?
  • Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
        Joseph Chilton Pearce   Best?
  • Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
        Pablo Picasso   Best?
  • There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
        Demosthenes   Best?
  • No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
        Scott Adams   Best?
  • Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
        Robert Byrne   Best?
  • Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
        James Thurber   Best?
  • California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
        Fred Allen   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • "Never have I looked so great unless I was painted in a portrait. I look at it and wonder, 'is that me? Or someone else?'"
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
        William Stafford   Best?
  • "It's not the beauty of the portrait, it's the beauty of the hands that painted it."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • It's easier to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russia's problems in 15 minutes
        Garry Kasparov   Best?
  • Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  • Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
        Barry Goldwater   Best?
  • Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
        George S. Patton   Best?
  • Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
        Jerry Garcia   Best?
  • The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.
        George Bush Sr.   Best?
  • My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared.
        P. J. Plauger   Best?
  • Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
        Dean Koontz   Best?
  • I realized, I'm never gonna be a Brad Pitt, so get over it, be happy with yourself, and move on.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
        Jacques le Blanc   Best?
  • In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
        A. E. Housman   Best?
  • Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
        Malcolm Forbes   Best?
  • I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
        Socrates   Best?

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