Art Quotes

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau

Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...

David Gridley, Indiantown

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

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

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Henry David Thoreau

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

Louise Driscoll

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

Our ego is our silent partner - - Too often with a controlling interest.

Cullen Hightowe

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Kitaro Nishida

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Prove

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

Fredrich Halm

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The out - Of - work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.

Everyone is the age of their heart.

Guatemalan Prove

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Saint Benedict

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

Dante Alighieri

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

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Epictetus

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Clive Staples Lewis

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

I Ching

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - The best part under ground.

Thomas Overbury

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.

Blaise Pascal