Art Quotes
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.I. F. Stone
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.John Lennon
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.Unknown
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.Akhenaton
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.Wendell Berry
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.Piero Milani
As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
Hear the other side. Audi Partem Alteram.Saint Augustine
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.Abraham Lincoln
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.Sir John Lubbock
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.Helen Kelle
Everyone is the age of their heart.Guatemalan Prove
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.Hal Borland
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.Zig Zigla
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
All art is but imitation of nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.Mignon McLaughlin
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.Charles Horton Cooley
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.Arabic Prove
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.John Barth
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.Martin Luther King Jr.
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .Phylos the Tibetan
