Art Quotes

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Anon.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Unknown

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

Albert Einstein

He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.

Biblical Prove

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

J. K. Galbraith

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Jean Cocteau

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

Steven Runciman

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

John Bunyan

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.

Franklin P. Adams

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Jim Davis

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Phillips Feynman

Dreams are wishes your heart makes.

American Prove

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

Sir Arthur Keith

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them.

Jules Feiffe

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.

Thomas Campbell

When I was one - And - Twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away. Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. But I was one - And - Twenty, No use to talk to me.

A. E. Houseman

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

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.

James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Alan Marshall Beck

The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.

Karin Mei? enburg, translator and autho

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.

Seneca