Art Quotes

Voltaire - animals have these advantages over man: they...
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
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".
Paulo coelho, by the river piedra i sat down and wept - i opened the window and my heart. the sun flooded...
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese
The revolution is not a tea party.
Mao Tse - Tung
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butle
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.
Radiquet
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
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.
George Seaton Bowes
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
Joan Winmill Brown
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold Geneen
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.
W. J. Cameron
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingrid Bergman
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that? s in it, And? you? ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
Manly P. Hall
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
Julius Rosenwald
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.
Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Kit Carson
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
Charles Baudelaire
Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
Elayne Boosle
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles De Gaulle
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
An understanding heart is everything is 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 Gustav Jung
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
Isaac Watts