Art Quotes
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.Michael Bridge
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.Marcus Terentius Varro, On Agriculture
When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.Martin Luthe
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.Portuguese Prove
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.Eugene Delacroix
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - - A canvas - - A piece of film - - Or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - - That vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.Edward Steichen
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.Oscar Levant
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.Marshall McLuhan
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.Jules Renard
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.Kahlil Gibran
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
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!Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.Horace Bushnell
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.W. Somerset Maugham
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.J. Paul Getty
If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.Unknown
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.Chinese Prove
