Art Quotes

William lloyd garrison - with reasonable men i will reason with humane men...
Will rogers - if any of us had a child that we thought was as...
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringe
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Gandhi
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1
Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Albert einstein - i am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my...
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
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.
Unknown
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
Henry Drummond
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beeche
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Lord Byron
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.
Pablo Piccaso
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfou
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Elizabeth Bowen
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Author Unknown
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Anonymous
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
Archimedes (ca. 235 bc)
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nade
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Franklin P. Jones
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis