Man Quotes

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

~ Francis Bacon

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

~ Edith Wharton

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

~ Marquis De Sade

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

~ William Morris

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

~ Carl Jung

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

~ Tom Waits

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

~ Isaac Newton

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

~ Helen Rowland

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

~ John Adams

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

~ Robert Collier

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

~ Helen Fisher

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

~ Samuel Johnson

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

~ William Hazlitt

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

~ Charles M. Schwab

The imagination is man's power over nature.

~ Wallace Stevens

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

~ Charles Kettering

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

~ Frederick Henry Hedge

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

~ Lady Bird Johnson

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

~ Michelangelo

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

~ Marc Chagall

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

~ John Ruskin

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

~ Albrecht Dürer

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

~ Lenny Bruce

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Art? That's a man's name.

~ Andy Warhol

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

~ William John Wills

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

~ Helen Rowland

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

~ Henry Kissinger

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

~ D. H. Lawrence

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

~ André Malraux

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

~ Amy Lowell

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

~ Edward Steichen

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

~ Ross Perot

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

~ John Morley