Art Quotes

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

Jesus Christ

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Horace Mann

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Lewis Ward

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

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

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adle

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Lao Tzu

The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.

Edwin Markham

The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.

Navajo Chant

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.

Marylin Monroe

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann von Goethe

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius, Elegies

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

Jean Baptiste Colbert

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Zig Zigla

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz