Art Quotes

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Derek Bethune

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

The Land Before Time

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Gail Pool

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

John Ciardi

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

Jean - Francois Rameau

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04

The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.

W. Edward Brown

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Francois Delsarte

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

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

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - Never.

Marguerite de Valois

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

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

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Jason Berg

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart.

Hellen Kelle

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Robert Joseph Bob Dole