Art Quotes

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

Lawrence Bixby

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

A. N. Whitehead

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

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 George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Virgil

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Jim Ryun

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Matthew Arnold

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw".

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Percival

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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 heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

Chinese Prove

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)

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

Louise Driscoll

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

W. H. Auden

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon

If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.

Unknown

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

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

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Patanjali

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle