Quotes by Authors - Page 211

You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker
Love is like war easy to begin but hard to end.
Anonymous
Love is a madness if thwarted it develops fast.
Mark Twain
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker
Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D.H. Lawrence
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.
Mary Wilson Little
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
John Lyly
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de l'Enclos
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Hungerford
The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.
Alice Walker
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour.
William Bolitho
Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Leon Battista Alberti
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore
Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tablecloth left awry in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
Douglas Jerrold
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away from you when it rains.
Anonymous
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
Sir Francis Bacon
A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.
Anonymous
A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.
Anonymous
Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.
George MacDonald
The birds can fly An' why can't I?
John Trowbridge
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
William Law
The year's in the wane There is nothing adoring The night has no eve And the day has no morning Cold winter gives warning!
Thomas Hood
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
All authority belongs to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.
Anonymous
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
Jonathan Swift
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow
I am an atheist thank God!
Anonymous
It's clever but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling
A work of art is an exaggeration.
André Gide
An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.
Hugh MacLennan
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
John Murray Gibbon
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
D.H. Lawrence
The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.
Osbert Sitwell
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.
Maurice Sendak
All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.
James Baldwin
With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman Mailer
One of the recognizable features of the authentic masterpiece is its capacity to renew itself to endure the loss of some kinds of immediate relevance while still answering the most important questions men can ask including new ones they are just learning how to frame.
Arnold Stein
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.
Albert Camus
Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.
Elizabeth Kilbourn
Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.
John W. Gardner
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Entile Zola
Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
Leo Tolstoy
When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.
John F Kennedy
Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.
Mike Rider
The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.
Henry James
The scholar seeks the artist finds.
André Gide
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
Eric Hoffer