Art Quotes

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.

Elisha Potte

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Albert Coombs Barnes

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

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

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

Chinese Prove

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Clive Staples Lewis

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

Percy Wynham Lewis

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

Barbara M. White

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Alan Ashley - Pitt

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 35 Bible

To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it - - who can say this is not greatness.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!

Sonjay Anand

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Ludwig von Beethoven

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Edgar Albert Guest

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackery

I am a part of all that I have met.

John Milton

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow