Art Quotes
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet Mondrian
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.Bible, Proverbs 23: 7
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.W. T. Ellis
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?Jules Feiffe
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.David Hume
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart.Hellen Kelle
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.Cicero
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.Jesus Christ
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Jung
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.Pablo Piccaso
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.Abraham Lincoln
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.Henry Kissinge
Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.Bob Hope
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.Kahlil Gibran
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.Dan Custe
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.Orison Swett Marden
California, the department store state.Raymond Chandle
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.George Seaton Bowes
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.Unknown
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Socrates
I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.Jewish Prove
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.Joseph Bonaparte
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.Edna St. Vincent Millay
