Art Quotes

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

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

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Manly P. Hall

Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andr Gide

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart.

Hellen Kelle

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

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

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.

Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

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

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

Woodrow Wilson

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

Paul Gauguin

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

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Jim Bishop

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Cornelius Tacitus

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

BesideCother art to be learned - - Not to see what is not.

Maria Mitchell

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Percival

Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Homer, The Odyssey

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Nietzsche

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.

Sun Bea

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Saul Bellow

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

Lord Acton

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Quida