Art Quotes

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Paul Klee

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Elizabeth Bowen

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Capone

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

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.

Blaise Pascal

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...

William Wadsworth

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!

Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

Alexandre Dumas

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.

Arnold Bennett

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

What an artist the world is losing in me.

Nero Claudius Caesa

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Sir Winston Churchill

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.

Thomas Campbell

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Sue Grafton

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...

Chief Seattle

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola