Art Quotes

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.

Elisha Potte

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.

Marc Chagall

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

Mahatma Gandhi

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Albert Einstein

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Albert Einstein

Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.

Anacharsis Cloots

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Russian prove

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.

Roosevelt, Eleano

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.

Home

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Dan Quayle

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Ronald Reagan

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe