Art Quotes

Henry van dyke - a friend is what the heart needs all the time....
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe
Sue grafton - it never pays to deal with the flyweights of the...
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
Yoshida Kenko
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
It? s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 09 - 05
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
Guatemalan prove - everyone is the age of their heart....
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.
David Frost
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
Aeschylus
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.
Unknown
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
Plato
Living together is an art.
William Pickens
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.
George Gordon Byron
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Fredrich Halm
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Kelle
To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine.
Browning
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Pete
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walke
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.
William Wordsworth
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
John Petit - Senn
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!
Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
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, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1