Art Quotes
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.Henry David Thoreau
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.Elbert Hubbard
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
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
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.Andy Warhol
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - Never.Marguerite de Valois
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.Ralph J. Smith
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
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.Robert A. Heinlein
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.William Makepeace Thackeray
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The sinning is the best part of repentance.Arab Prove
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.Albert Einstein
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.Johnson
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.J Danforth Quayle
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.Alan Chadwick
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw".
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Politics is the art of the possible.Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
Discretion is not the better part of biography.Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.Omaha Prove
