Art Quotes

E. m. forste - i suggest that the only books that influence us...
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
Art is I; science is we.
Claude Bernard
Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.
The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence
You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.
Al Capone
Paul klee - the beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from...
Hear the other side. Audi Partem Alteram.
Saint Augustine
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
Luis Rodriguez, Always Running
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
Mark Twain
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Clive Staples Lewis
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 to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Clive Staples Lewis
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.
Sir Robert Owen
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
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
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Mount Hufstedle
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Phil Condit
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - - A canvas - - A piece of film - - Or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - - That vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Edward Steichen
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
Swami Sivanada
The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.
Alessandro Pronzato