Art Quotes

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Annie Sullivan

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

Great artists have no country.

Alfred du Masset

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhaue

If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.

Unknown

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Unknown

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxte

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Rose Elizabeth Bird

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butle

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

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

Fredrich Halm

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Mark Twain

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio

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

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

Jean - Francois Rameau

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.

William Hazlitt

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.

Edward Morgan Forste

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Malcom Mclaren

Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.

Polly Whitney

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 35 Bible

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

Charles Dickens

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Lauren Bacall