Art Quotes

Henry seely - indians are plenty smart. we catch small wood....
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer, The Iliad
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Martin Luthe
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
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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
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald Spengle
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Quida
If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. - - John F. Kennedy to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1962.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Kelle
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffe
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.
Jean Anouilh
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
Plato
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Kelle
To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
Aldous Huxley
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthu
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann von Goethe
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!
Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
I. F. Stone
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Anonymous
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
Piero Milani
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Oscar Levant
We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
Kabbalah