Art Quotes

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Kelle

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.

Johathan Edwards

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Serbian Prove

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.

Anon.

Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.

Stephen Price

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

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Leo Rosten

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 35 Bible

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Archimedes

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

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

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

Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince

But did thee feel the earth move?

Ernest Hemingway

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Nikita Khrushchev

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nade

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - A Mount Rushmore of incompetence.

David Steinberg

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

John Evelyn

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

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

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

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Bruce Lee

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff