Art Quotes

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.

Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin Prove

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

Willa Sibert Cathe

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Mort Sahl

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Percival

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

T. S. Eliot

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

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butle

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.

Yvette Gilbert, (1865 - 1944)

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

Bill Cosby

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

George F. Will

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

Vinet

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.

Zig Zigla

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Charles Williams

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Tshunka Witko

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. V. Lucas

My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.

Mike Singletary

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Alexander Pope

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Felix G. Rohatyn

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

James Beard

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank