Art Quotes

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Elizabeth Bowen

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin P. Adams

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Freya Stark

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

Hannah Whitall Smith

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Author Unknown

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Edward Gibbon

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Berenson

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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)

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

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

Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.

Victor Hugo

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death".

J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.

Spider - Man

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - - As long as I keep my senses, at least.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.

Henry David Thoreau

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beeche

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

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

Anne Brown

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend.

Ronnie Hawkins

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

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

Erich Fromm

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003