Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Good actions ennoble us and we are the sons of our deeds.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.