Antisthenes
“Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.” Antisthenes quotes
Month: June 2009
Marc Chagall
“Great art picks up where nature ends.” Marc Chagall quotes
Francoise Sagan
“Art must take reality by surprise.” Francoise Sagan quotes
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.” Barbara Grizzuti Harrison quotes
Jane Goodall
“People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these …
Gustave Courbet
“Fine art is knowledge made visible.” Gustave Courbet quotes
Anita Roddick
“The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.” Anita Roddick quotes
Edgar Degas
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas quotes
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“God is in the details.” Ludwig Mies van der Rohe quotes
Carl Sagan
“Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.” Carl Sagan quotes
William H. Borah
“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” William H. …
Konstantin Stanislavisky
“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.” Konstantin Stanislavisky quotes
Ad Reinhardt
“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.” Ad Reinhardt quotes
Niko Stumpo
“Art has never been made while thinking of art.” Niko Stumpo quotes
Robert Quillen
“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.” Robert Quillen quotes
Hans Christian Andersen
“Where words fail, music speaks.” Hans Christian Andersen quotes
Stan Brakhage
“Art is a sense of magic.” Stan Brakhage quotes
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never. Charles Caleb Colton
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. Proverb
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Helen Rowland
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone. Jean-Paul Sartre
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Diane Ackerman
Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them. Pat Carroll
Every man loves what he is good at.
Every man loves what he is good at. Thomas Shadwell
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. Francoise Sagan
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo Buscaglia
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. Leo Buscaglia
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. Yogi Desai
Do all things with love.
Do all things with love. Og Mandino
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit William Shakespeare
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee. Spanish Proverb
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. David Chambless
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. King Jr. Martin Luther
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean De La Bruyere
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. Jonathan Swift
Robert W. Sarnoff
“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.” Robert W. Sarnoff quotes
Ernst Fischer
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” Ernst Fischer quotes
All mankind loves a lover.
All mankind loves a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce