Art Quotes

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
Lucius annaeus seneca - courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -...
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
David Pratt
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
Marcus aurelius antoninus - the art of living is more like wrestling than...
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Friedrich nietzsche, thus spoke zarathustra - in a friend one should have ones best enemy. you...
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
Albert Einstein
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.
Johathan Edwards
The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Dodie Smith
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
Robert S. McNamara, former U. S. Secretary of Defense
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
Vivian Baxte
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
Virgil
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Ludwig von Beethoven
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent Van Gogh
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Brian Adams
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Johann von Goethe
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Geri Weitzman
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.
Charles Horton Cooley
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
Alvin Toffle
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart.
Hellen Kelle
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
A. N. Whitehead
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.
Robert E. Kahn