Art Quotes

God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.

Bob Allisat

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann von Goethe

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Sam James Ervin, Jr.

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein II

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.

J. Krishnamutri

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

Cicero

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...

William Wadsworth

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

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Arnold Bennett

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Homer, The Odyssey

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

Dutch Prove

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

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

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

Eric Hoffe

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Vincent Van Gogh

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

William Butler Yeats

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Saying

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

Unknown

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney