Art Quotes

Jesus christ - whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all...
There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo.
William Shakespeare
A light heart lives long.
Irish Prove
Chief joseph, on his surrender to gen. howard, october 5, 1877 - hear me, my chiefs! i am tired. my heart is sick...
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
Sun Bea
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .
Phylos the Tibetan
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Sir Francis Bacon
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfou
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beeche
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Martin Barzun
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome
Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
Zig Zigla
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.
Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
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
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
Mary Ellen Kelly
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
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
Richard Phillips Feynman
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
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillo
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.
David Frost
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road.
Karen Blixen
Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.
LaDawnna Burnett, (1975 -), Letters on Ethics
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)