Art Quotes

Thomas mann - a solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees...
You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.
Al Capone
Piero milani - why should i buy expensive art when i can make my...
Homer, the odyssey - we are quick to flare up, we races of men on the...
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
Marcus Garvey
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
Joan Winmill Brown
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Sibert Cathe
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature".
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
William Blake
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Hellen Kelle
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
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]
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer, The Iliad
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
Pearl Buck
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
James Madison, Federalist 10
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Prove
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
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.
Pablo Piccaso
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.
Stephen Neill
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Sir Henry Taylo
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
Hugh Prathe
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Anon.
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Anonymous