Art Quotes
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.Garth Henrichs
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
California, the department store state.Raymond Chandle
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.Longfellow
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.Henry Van Dyke
A year from now you may wish you had started today.Karen Lam
And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.Native American Praye
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
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
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.Albert Einstein
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.Unknown
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.Dio Lewis
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.George Bernard Shaw
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.Vivian Baxte
May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.Blessing Irish
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.Margaret Hilda Thatche
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.Sir Walter Raleigh
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.George Eliot
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.Miguel de Cervantes
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.Pauline Kael
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.H. A. Kramers
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature".
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.Aldous Huxley
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I. vii
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.Isaac Watts
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.Albert Einstein
