Art Quotes

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Will Rogers

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Kahlil Gibran

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse, O Magazine, April 2003

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

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

W. T. Ellis

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

John Petit - Senn

I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.

Home

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Thomas Andrew Bailey

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.

Ripley D. Saunders

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Robert Cecil Day Lewis

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luthe

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

Lavina Christensen Fugal

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

Terry Josephson