Art Quotes

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.

John Barth

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheele

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackery

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

Shneur Zalman

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

W. C. Fields

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Dr. Arbthnot

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

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

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

Auguste Renoi

Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

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.

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

I Ching

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein II

If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Winston Churchhill

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore De Balzac

In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody.

Carl Sandburg

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.

Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.

Sun Bea

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.

Robin Tyle

When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.

Richard Olton

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.

Eliza Mother Stewart

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

Unknown

Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.

Chinese Prove

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Jacob Getlar Smith

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada