Art Quotes

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius, Elegies

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A Bartlett Giamatti

In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Alexander Pope

The Soviet Union would remain a one - Party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - Because everyone would join that party.

Ronald Reagan

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

Mohammed Ali

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Sophocles

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

Percy Wynham Lewis

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

A. W. Toze

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all.

William Hart Coleridge

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Winston Churchhill

Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.

Katherine Mansfield

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Will Rogers

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...

William Shakespeare

Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Walter Lippmann