Art Quotes

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
Epictetus - were i a nightingale, i would act the part of a...
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
Lucretius
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Louis Jackson
William osle - there is no more difficult art to acquire than...
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.
Jesus Christ
Johann kaspar lavate - a sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity....
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Aga
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
John Foster Dulles
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Daniel Defoe
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.
Ralph Kine
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
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Aldous Huxley
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
Fernandez de Andrada
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 an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Swami Sivanada
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.
Ayn Rand, Anthem
There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthu
But did thee feel the earth move?
Ernest Hemingway
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
Hilton Krame
Listen to your heart, because in the end it is your heart that matters.
Jennifer Tyle
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
Voltaire
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri F. Amiel
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Bronte
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.
Navajo Chant