Art Quotes

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

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

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Joyce

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Zig Zigla

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato, The Republic

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

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 you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.

George Eliot

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Jay Leno

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthu

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Oscar Ameringe

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

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

Joan Crawford

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

George Linley

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Socrates

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field.

Jim Boulton

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

Carl Gustav Jung

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

Albert Einstein