Art Quotes

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

Shneur Zalman

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

Janet Long

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Sue Grafton

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

Joel Patrick Warneke

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

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

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.

Henri Cartier - Bresson

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

Edmund Burke

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Tom Lehre

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antonin Scalia

Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.

Old School

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Henri F. Amiel

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Thomas Carlye

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

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

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

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Unknown

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington