Art Quotes
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.James Abram Garfield
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens
As he thinks in his heart, so he is.Jewish Prove
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.Alexander Pope
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.Victor Hugo
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.Leo Tolstoy
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Orson Welles, 1966
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
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.Quida
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.Sir William Osle
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.Johathan Edwards
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Bad mind, bad heart.Anacharsis Cloots
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.Sir Walter Scott
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.Anonymous
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.Rollo May
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.Steven Runciman
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.Frank Moore Colby
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.A. W. Toze
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.Miguel de Cervantes
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.Ronald Reagan
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.Winston Churchhill
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
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.Seneca
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.Saul Bellow
