Art Quotes

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

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

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Ingrid Bergman

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.

Unknown

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

Kahlil Gibran

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

George Whitefield

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Don Schula

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Marge Piercy

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Richard Adams

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.

Vivian Baxte

You are not an artist, an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.

Eric Pio

The art of being bored is lost.

Ted Klauber, Senior Executive, FCB Worldwide

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman