Art Quotes
There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.Lao Tzu
There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.Plato
Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.Old School
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.Cyril Connolly
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.Novalis
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.Bill Chickering
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
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
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.Charles Williams
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.George Jean Nathan
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.Vincent Van Gogh
You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.Henri Frdric Amiel
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.George J. Seidel
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.Biblical Prove
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.G. K. Chesterton
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
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
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.Ernest Dimnet
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.Erich Fromm
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.Groucho Marx
The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.Stephen Neill
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.Socrates
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.A. E. Hotchne
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
