Art Quotes
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)
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.Stanislaw Lec
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.Constance Naden
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.Sophocles
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.Shirley Temple
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
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.Unknown
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.Jim Bishop
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.Sue Patton Thoele
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.Ralph Nade
Start slow and taper off.Walt Stack
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.John Foster Dulles
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.A. R. Orage
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.Dostoyevsky
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.Oscar Wilde
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.Ferdinand Magellan
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.James Joseph Sylveste
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.George Gordon Byron
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Martin Luthe
