Art Quotes

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
James Baldwin
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Marge Piercy
Robert valett - the human heart feels things the eyes cannot see,...
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato, The Republic
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.
Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
Henry wadsworth longfellow - there are moments in life, when the heart is so...
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
Emily Dickinson
Christina g. rossetti - in the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan,...
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Kelle
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin
We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliott
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Clive Staples Lewis
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Woody Allen
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.
John Knowles
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Gustav Jung
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.
Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
Nietzsche
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.
Unknown
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 closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.
Jesus Christ
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
I used to wake up at 4 A. M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurbe
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.
Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann von Goethe
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
Patricia Roberts Harris
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205