Art Quotes

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Dean Koontz, Watchers

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When I was one - And - Twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away. Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. But I was one - And - Twenty, No use to talk to me.

A. E. Houseman

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

Virgil

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Richard Adams

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)

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

Polly Whitney

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

Mickey Friedman

When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.

John Milton

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann von Goethe

Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Hiram Powers

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia, Voices

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

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

Charles Dickens

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

William Blake

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend.

Ronnie Hawkins

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

Roger Zelazny

To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.

Bob Allisat

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell