Art Quotes

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butle

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

Graffito

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Christa McAuliffe

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Anthony Robbins

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

George Linley

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Aldous Huxley

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

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

John Lennon

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Hiram Powers

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

John Updike

The out - Of - work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

Steven Runciman

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.

Rich Hall, "Sniglets".

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

W. S. Gilbert

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Erich Fromm

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

Andrew Schneide

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Will Rogers

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Ben Harpe

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Nietzsche

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley