Art Quotes

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Prove

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

T. S. Eliot

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

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

Plato

The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

Stephen Neill

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

Marcus Terentius Varro, On Agriculture

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Elizabeth Bowen

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Cicero

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

Vinet

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Kingsley Amis

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start.

Jody Weintrau

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Aldous Huxley

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

When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.

Richard Olton

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Francois Delsarte

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

I Ching

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell