Art Quotes

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

Daniel Defoe

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

I am a part of all I have seen.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!

Sonjay Anand

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

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 G. Rossetti

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

LaDawnna Burnett (1975 -), Letters on Ethics

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Carl Jung

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Jacob Getlar Smith

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.

Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.

Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Gustav Jung

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

Woodrow Wilson

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.

George D. Prentice

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody