Art Quotes
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.Oscar Wilde
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.William Shakespeare
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.David Pratt
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.John Milton
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.Marc Chagall
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.Joseph Bonaparte
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.Erich Fromm
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.Thomas Jefferson
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.Charles Williams
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.George Whitefield
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Pete
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.Leonard Bernstein
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.Elbert Hubbard
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?William Hart Coleridge
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.Ralph J. Smith
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.Clive Staples Lewis
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
The sinning is the best part of repentance.Arab Prove
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.Mark Twain
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.Judy Garland
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
