Art Quotes

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

Loren

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Turkish Prove

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.

Arabic Prove

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, Death Be Not Proud

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Albert Smith

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

Ferdinand Magellan

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

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

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fulle

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all.

William Hart Coleridge

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

William Makepeace Thackeray

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Zelda

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Pete

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

California, the department store state.

Raymond Chandle