Art Quotes

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838

I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.

Edward H. S. Terry

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

John W. N. Sullivan

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frederick Buechne

The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.

Karin Mei? enburg, translator and autho

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

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

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjlmur Stefnsson

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Aldous Huxley

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Edward Morgan Forste

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

Marcus Garvey

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Charles Kingsley

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

Maitri Upanishads

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

Charles McCabe

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Unknown

Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.

James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

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

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.

Sir Francis Bacon

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beeche

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Norman Vincent Peale