Art Quotes

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920

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

D. H. Lawrence

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

John W. N. Sullivan

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

J. K. Galbraith

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

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 be always part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.

Annie Gottlie

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

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

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.

Pablo Picasso

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

Malcom Mclaren

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, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.

George D. Prentice

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Chinese Prove

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Garth Henrichs

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

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

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 changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

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

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

Aeschylus

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Ayn Rand, Anthem

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington