Art Quotes

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

What an artist the world is losing in me.

Nero Claudius Caesa

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.

Tod Johnson

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".

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Irving Layton

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

John Ciardi

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

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

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Annie Sullivan

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Christa McAuliffe

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Sinclair Lewis

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

Japanese Prove

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....

Ian Shoales

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

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

Pablo Piccaso

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad