Art Quotes

Lucius annaeus seneca - to wish to be well is a part of becoming well....
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Stella adle - life beats down and crushes the soul and art...
Rudyard kipling, as easy as a. b. c. (1917) - once there was the people - terror gave it birth;...
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
Saul Bellow
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
Heinrich Heine
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.
Albert Einstein
When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Insanity in individuals is something rare - But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Aldous Huxley
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.
Michael Talbot
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin
He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Prove
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
Molly Haskell
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
Louis Celine
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.
John Gillespie Magee
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
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Blaise Pascal
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
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann