Art Quotes
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.Jacques Martin Barzun
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.Michael J. Gel
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.Tryon Edwards
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.Orison Swett Marden
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.Virgil
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.John Petit - Senn
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.Virginia Woolf
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?Jay Leno
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.A. N. Whitehead
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.Charles H. Mayo
If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.Arabic Prove
Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.Stephen Price
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.Dan Seligman
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.Aldous Huxley
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.Mike Singletary
We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.Jeff Warne
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.Jiddu Krishnamurti
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet Mondrian
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.A Bartlett Giamatti
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.Dalai Llama
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.Marshall McLuhan
