Art Quotes
Bad mind, bad heart.Anacharsis Cloots
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.Pablo Picasso
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.Charles Williams
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman... on Love & Relationships
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.Alan Stewart Paton
How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.Charles de Gaulle
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.Woodrow Wilson
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.William Butler Yeats
The revolution is not a tea party.Mao Tse - Tung
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.Dodie Smith
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.Andrew Schneide
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.Joseph Bonaparte
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.Zelda
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.Stanislaw Lec
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.Franz Werfel
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.Walt Whitman
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.Ogden Nash, "The Pig".
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.Hardy D. Jackson
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.Washington Irving
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.Bible, Colossians 3: 16
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.Lyndon B. Johnson
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.Homer, The Odyssey
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.Cindy Lew
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.Rene Angelil
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.Unknown
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.Russian prove
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.Eugene McCarthy
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.John Burroughs
