Art Quotes

Lucius annaeus seneca - all art is but imitation of nature....
W. h. auden - accurate scholarship can unearth the whole...
Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us - - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.
James Madison
Alfred lord tennyson - i am a part of all i have seen....
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
William Shakespeare
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
William Shakespeare
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
William Shakespeare
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
Edward Morgan Forste
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George Moore
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.
Franz Kafka
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.
Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
Will Rogers
Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.
Ernst Jnger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
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 George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
Marcus Garvey
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.
William Hazlitt
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.
George Eliot, Romola
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke