Art Quotes

James baldwin - you think your pains and heartbreaks are...
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
Johnson
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
Unknown
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
The dhammapada - if one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery...
A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.
Steven Wright
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph, on his surrender to Gen. Howard, October 5, 1877
Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.
Charles McCabe
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Albert Einstein
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Sibert Cathe
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.
John Milton
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
Saint Benedict
The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.
Stephen Neill
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
John Ruskin
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Aga
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John Morley
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffe
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
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
James Baldwin
Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.
Ralph Kine
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
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
John Hay
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
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
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
Dan Quayle
If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Chinese Prove
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
Alfred Victor Vigny
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry