Art Quotes

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Isaac Watts

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Loukes

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Albert Einstein

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme

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

Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.

Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph, on his surrender to Gen. Howard, October 5, 1877

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

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

William Shakespeare

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Unknown

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Malcom Mclaren

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

J. Russel Lynes

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

Lucretius

And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.

Koran

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Will Rogers

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

John Ruskin

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

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 art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Atwell

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Horace Mann