Art Quotes
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.Robert Benchley
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.
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.A. W. Toze
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.Matthew Green (c. 1737)
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.Victor Hugo
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.Thomas Jefferson
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.Paul Erlich
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.Ronald Reagan
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.Ellen Gilcrist
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
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
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.Arthur Ashe
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.Mother Theresa
When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.Richard Olton
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.Thomas Crum
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.Kitaro Nishida
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.Walter Savage Lando
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.Joseph Conrad
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.Goldie Hawn
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.Don Miguel Ruiz
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.Biblical Prove
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.Romare Beardon
