Art Quotes
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.Rene Angelil
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
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.E. M. Cioran
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.A. W. Toze
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.Victor Hugo
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.Vincent Van Gogh
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Gustav Jung
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.Dalai Llama
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.Edward Morgan Forste
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.Francois Delsarte
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.Lauren Bacall
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.Scott Adams
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.Tieck
Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.Malcom Mclaren
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.Zig Zigla
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Jung
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?Edwin Markham
Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.Chinese Prove
