Art Quotes
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.Eugene McCarthy
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)
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.John Bunyan
Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.Child Age 15
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
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.Kahlil Gibran
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.J. Krishnamarti
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.Miguel de Cervantes
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.Clive Staples Lewis
Each body has its art...Gwendolyn Brooks
Art is a lie that tells the truth.Pablo Picasso
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.Annie Sullivan
I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.John 174 Bible
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.Michael Bridge
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.Pearl Buck
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.William Faulkne
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.Celia Thaxte
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.John Milton
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.Richard Milhous Nixon
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.Sir Arthur Keith
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
