Art Quotes
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.Christian Cardell Corbet
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.Clive Staples Lewis
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.Marcel Duchamp
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.Lauren Bacall
Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.Carl Polloi
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.George Washington Carve
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.Dio Lewis
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.George J. Seidel
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.Mother Teresa
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.Fredrich Halm
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.Thomas Campbell
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.Moliere
Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.Max Lerne
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.George Bernard Shaw
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.Henry M. Wriston
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.Mohammed Negui
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.Jean Paul Richte
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.Martin Luthe
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.William Hazlitt
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
None of us is as smart as all of us.Phil Condit
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.John Gillespie Magee
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.George Linley
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
