Art Quotes

Anton chekhov - people are far more sincere and good - humored at...
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Marcel ayme - oh, how i love the earth and everything in it,...
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.
Al Franken
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
The revolution is not a tea party.
Mao Tse - Tung
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
Unknown
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
T. S. Eliot
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.
Russell M. Nelson
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo.
William Shakespeare
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Matthew Arnold
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
Charles Kingsley
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
Unknown
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fulle
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Sophocles
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
Alfred Victor Vigny
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Julius Henry Marx
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951