Art Quotes

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Norman Vincent Peale

So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

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

Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Capone

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Carl Jung

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Lewis Ward

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

Cicero

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...

Chief Seattle

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Henri Frdric Amiel

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Prove

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.

E. C. Stedman

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Pearl Buck