Art Quotes
Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.LaDawnna Burnett (1975 -), Letters on Ethics
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.Sir Philip Sidney
There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.Tennessee Williams
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.Sigmund Freud
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.H. S. Thompson
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.Robert Frost
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
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
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.Carl Gustav Jung
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.Charles Dickens
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.Kahlil Gibran
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.Seneca
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.Radiquet
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.Don Marquis
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
Love is space and time measured by the heart.Marcel Proust
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
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.Frank Zappa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.Mother Theresa
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.E. M. Cioran
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.John Updike
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.Marcel Proust
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.Ernst Jnger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.Paul Klee
As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.Maitri Upanishads
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
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.Dazed and Confused
