Art Quotes

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Ellen Gilcrist

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

Francis Beaumont

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

Derek Bethune

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

William Inge

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden

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

Albert Einstein

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

Ronald Reagan

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Henri Frdric Amiel

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.

Dan Quayle

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Mohammed Negui

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Author Unknown

Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.

Raynor Schein

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

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

David Hume

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Unknown

Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

Martin Terman

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

John Evelyn

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Sir John Lubbock

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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

May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.

Leonardo DaVinci

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

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

Mohammed Ali