Art Quotes
My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.Jean Cocteau
This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start.Jody Weintrau
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.Albert Einstein
Knowledge exists to be imparted.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.Martin Luthe
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.Lord Byron
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.Franklin P. Jones
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.Elizabeth Bowen
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.Pablo Piccaso
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.Socrates
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.Seneca
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.A Bartlett Giamatti
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.D. Elton Trueblood
The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.Native American
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.Donald O. Rickte
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.W. Somerset Maugham
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Bertrand Russell
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.Home
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
