Art Quotes

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Anonymous

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.

Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Tieck

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, The Snow - Walkers

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Jim

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

William Shakespeare

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.

John Barth

I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.

Benito Perez Galdos

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius, History

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Sir Winston Churchill

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Don Schula

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Geri Weitzman

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Thomas Andrew Bailey

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Ludwig van Beethoven

There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.

Venezuelan Prove

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

A. E. Hotchne

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.

Suzanne Chapin

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Hilton Krame

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Give your hearts, but not into each other? s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

George Moore

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

Cesare Pavese