Art Quotes

Henry wadsworth longfellow - the adoration of his heart had been to her only...
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
George bernard shaw - martyrdom is the only way a person can become...
Henry david thoreau, journal, january 21, 1838 - man is the artificer of his own happiness....
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
John Milton
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
J. Russel Lynes
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Moore
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
Clive Staples Lewis
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De Balzac
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
A. N. Whitehead
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Al Rogers
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
David Pratt
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.
Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammad
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffe
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
Henry P. Fairchild
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.
Pearl Buck
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Pete
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato, The Republic
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
George F. Will
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year - - - Everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operato
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
George Will
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luthe
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Charles Peguy
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.
Lao Tzu
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.
Unknown
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.
Unknown
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.
Robert Green Ingersoll