Art Quotes

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

This is the last of earth! I am content.

John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

Robert Collie

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo C. Rosten

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Henry Beston

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton

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

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

You are not an artist, an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.

Eric Pio

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Charles Horton Cooley

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

John Knowles

There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo DaVinci, (maybe)

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Arthur Baldwin

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!

Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

The Land Before Time

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.

Charles De Gaulle

An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.

Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland