Art Quotes

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.

John Barth

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

German prove

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Thomas Fulle

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Arab Prove

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - - And know the place for the first time.

T. S Eliot

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!

Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.

Unknown

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.

Pablo Picasso

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

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

General Omar Nelson Bradley

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Stephen Hawking

A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.

Anne Brown

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

A. Whitney Brown

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Mark Twain