Art Quotes

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

Cicero

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field.

Jim Boulton

To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.

Henry David Thoreau

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams

Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Michael Talbot

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that? s in it, And? you? ll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.

Matthew Green (c. 1737)

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Robert Valett

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Prove

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

John Updike

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkne

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Denis Watley

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Stanislaw Lec

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

California, the department store state.

Raymond Chandle