Art Quotes

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
Erich fromm - if it were not for hopes, the heart would break....
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudne
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
Oscar Wilde
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles De Gaulle
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beeche
Robyn davidson - the two important things i did learn were that...
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
Martin luthe - when jesus christ utters a word, he opens his...
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porte
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them.
Jules Feiffe
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
Sonjay Anand
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
Sue Patton Thoele
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
Archimedes (ca. 235 bc)
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
John Milton
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Richard Wagne
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Kahlil Gibran
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.
Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
South
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Henry Ward Beeche
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman... on Love & Relationships
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine
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
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
John Hay
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
James Joseph Sylveste
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Rothschild Parke
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
Chief Seattle
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
Marcus Terentius Varro, On Agriculture