Art Quotes

Whittaker chambers - when you understand what you see, you will no...
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers
Native american praye - and the wind said may you be as strong as the...
Pablo picasso - art is a lie that makes us realize truth....
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.
Paulo Coelho, Brida
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.
Unknown
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Dame Edith Sitwell
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.
Tod Johnson
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.
Johathan Edwards
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
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
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
Biblical Prove
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
Lord Billingsley
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody.
Carl Sandburg
The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
Emmet Fox
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Frances Burnett
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.
Henry Tuckerman
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.
Pablo Picasso
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
Heinrich Heine
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Prove
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
Patricia Roberts Harris
Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
Alexandre Dumas
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
Lao Tzu
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
Joan Winmill Brown
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
William Blake