Art Quotes

Anatole france - all changes, even the most longed for, have their...
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
William shakespeare - now cracks a noble heart. good night sweet prince...
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Hasidic Saying
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Erich Fromm
Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
Elayne Boosle
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Erich Fromm
I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
John 174 Bible
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
La Rochefoucauld
More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - - The acid, final test.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.
Woodrow Wilson
Buddha - there are only two mistakes one can make along...
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chaplin
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.
Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.
Spider - Man
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Bronte
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Maria Montessori
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....
Ian Shoales
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
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
There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthu
I am a part of all that I have met.
John Milton
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second - Rate art of imitation.
Stephen Neill
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
D. H. Lawrence
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox