Art Quotes

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

E. M. Forste

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

Henry David Thoreau

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

I am a part of all I have seen.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

Samuel C. Florman

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

Aristotle

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Ludwig von Beethoven

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius, Elegies

Diversity the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

Living together is an art.

William Pickens

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.

William Hazlitt

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.

Seneca

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Jay Leno

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A Bartlett Giamatti

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. V. Lucas

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Clive Staples Lewis

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.

Child Age 15

Being a hero is about the shortest - Lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.

Andrew Schneide

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

The Dhammapada