Art Quotes

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

The family is the country of the heart.

Giuseppe Mazzini

It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

A child is the root of the heart.

Maria de Jesus

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

Mary Ellen Kelly

All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart.

Carlos Castaneda

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Robert Frost

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.

L. M. K. Boelter, 1957

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia, Voices

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Martin Barzun

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.

Zig Zigla

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjlmur Stefnsson

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw".

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

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

LaDawnna Burnett, (1975 -), Letters on Ethics

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Charles Baudelaire

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.

Ralph J. Smith

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles De Gaulle

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

J. Paul Getty

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Kahlil Gibran