Art Quotes

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Mark Twain

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

Nietzsche

Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.

Ronald Reagan

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

W. J. Cameron

Wife: a former sweetheart.

H. L. Mencken

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

LaDawnna Burnett, (1975 -), Letters on Ethics

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.

Annie Gottlie

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

W. B. Yeats, the second coming

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Ogden Nash, "The Pig".

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.

George D. Prentice

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Lao Tzu

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

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - - As long as I keep my senses, at least.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore

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

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Sir Walter Scott