Art Quotes

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

Robert Byrne

Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.

Polly Whitney

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Thomas Andrew Bailey

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Uta Hagan

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Miguel de Cervantes

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Gustave Flaubert

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

William Shakespeare

As he thinks in his heart, so he is.

Jewish Prove

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

Bill Cosby

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Tshunka Witko

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Daphne Rose Kingma

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

Francis Beaumont

The weather - Cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm - wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Heinrich Heine

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holme

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.

Joseph Conrad

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year - - - Everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operato

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

Omaha Prove

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.

James Madison

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2