Art Quotes

John ruskin - we were not sent into this world to do anything...
Carl jung - to me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no...
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
General Omar Nelson Bradley
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas fulle - if it were not for hope, the heart would break....
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.
Jason Berg
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.
Radiquet
I am a part of all that I have met.
John Milton
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.
Walt Whitman
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.
Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
Moby, quoted on CNN. com, March 2005
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.
Unknown
This is the last of earth! I am content.
John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.
Gaius Julius Caesa
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
Unknown
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Kit Carson
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
Henry P. Fairchild
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.
Unknown
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Gandhi
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.
Leonardo DaVinci
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter Lippmann
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
Elisha Potte
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 Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
Eric Hoffe
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.
Ronald Reagan