Art Quotes
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.Oscar Wilde
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
There is no gravity. The earth sucks.Graffito
ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.L. Ron Hubbard
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.Lord Byron
Discretion is not the better part of biography.Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.Stephen Neill
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.Samuel Johnson
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington Irving
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.Miguel de Cervantes
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.J. Krishnamarti
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.Martin Luthe
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.Julius Rosenwald
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them.Jules Feiffe
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
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.Walter Winchell
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
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
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.Cyril Connolly
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.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.Henry Fielding
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.Marc Chagall
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.Hellen Kelle
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.Phillips Brooks
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.Michael J. Gel
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.Charles Peguy
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.Charlotte Bronte
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
