Art Quotes

God is seated in the hearts of all.

Bhagavad Gita

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

J Danforth Quayle

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Arthur Baldwin

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

Henry David Thoreau

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Albert Einstein

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwa

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.

Napolean Hill

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

Lawrence Bixby

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson, (attributed)

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

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

Steven King, The Stand

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Anon.

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.

Albert Einstein

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

L. Ron Hubbard

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

Eric Pio

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004