Art Quotes

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Francis Bacon

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

Oscar Wilde

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

William Butler Yeats

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.

Spider - Man

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

God is seated in the hearts of all.

Bhagavad Gita

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.

The Dhammapada

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.

Alan Stewart Paton

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Sir William Osle

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.

George D. Prentice

They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.

Edward Morgan Forste

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson, (attributed)

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

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Virgil

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.

Suzanne Chapin

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Tennessee Williams

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blai

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