Art Quotes

Thomas overbury - the man who has nothing to boast of but his...
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant
Lucius annaeus seneca - the ascent from earth to heaven is not easy....
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Richard Adams
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Phil Condit
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chaplin
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel de Cervantes
Russell m. nelson - we were born to die and we die to live. as...
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
Sir Philip Sidney
The great thing is the start - To see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - And him for nothing.
Robert Collie
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.
Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G. K. Chesterton
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
Dan Quayle
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Antonio Porchia, Voices
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
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
Dostoyevsky
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
Vivian Baxte
Start slow and taper off.
Walt Stack
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.
George Bernard Shaw
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.
Jason Berg
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.
H. A. Kramers
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.
Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest