Art Quotes

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luthe

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

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John A. Locke

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry G. Stott, 1907

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

Radiquet

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.

Honore de Balzac

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle

How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.

Charles De Gaulle

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

LaDawnna Burnett (1975 -), Letters on Ethics

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Cornelius Tacitus

ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.

Yvette Gilbert, (1865 - 1944)

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us

The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Edward R. Murrow

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxte

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - - A canvas - - A piece of film - - Or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - - That vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

Edward Steichen

The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Jacob Getlar Smith

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

William Shakespeare

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

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

Franklin P. Jones

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

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