Art Quotes

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Sir Philip Sidney

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

William Drayton

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.

Richard Olton

Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.

Marcius Porcius Cato

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

Aeschylus

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Henry Watton

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

A child is the root of the heart.

Maria de Jesus

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer, The Iliad

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

Cesare Pavese

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

Roger Zelazny

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Colley Cibbe

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luthe

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.

Arabic Prove

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Marge Piercy

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Woodrow Wilson