Art Quotes

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

I am a part of all I have read.

John Kieran

We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.

T. S. Eliot

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Brenda Ueland

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Don Schula

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

Andrew Schneide

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

William Shakespeare

If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.

Unknown

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Anonymous

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Mark Twain

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Thomas Fulle

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Winchell

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

A large part of virtue consists in good habits.

William Paley

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Jim