Art Quotes

• "The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there."
  By: Russell Lynes
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• "[Style is] that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying…. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."
  By: Robert Frost
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• "[There is] a breed of fashion models … who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary."
  By: Dave Barry
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• "[Democratic nations] must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."
  By: Margaret Thatcher
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• "Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that? Not really [McCarthy's]. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully."
  By: Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
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• "Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements."
  By: Clive Staples Lewis
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• "Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."
  By: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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• "I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960."
  By: John Lennon
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• "Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep."
  By: John Milton
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• "I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."
  By: Lyndon Baines Johnson
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• "From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)."
  By: Jesse Louis Jackson
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• "The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so."
  By: William Ralph Inge
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• "A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it."
  By: Hastings
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