Art Quotes

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Robert Valett

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

James Baldwin

When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

B. B. Warfield

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

La Rochefoucauld

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Sir Philip Sidney

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - - The acid, final test.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer, The Odyssey

A heart that loves is always young.

Greek Prove

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

Antonio Porchia, Voices

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

Percival

Each body has its art...

Gwendolyn Brooks

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

Auguste Renoi

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Thomas Andrew Bailey

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

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Robert Frost

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Moliere

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

Robert Collie

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Annie Sullivan

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones