Art Quotes

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Karl Rove, March 19, 2001

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.

Unknown

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Unknown

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Francis Behan

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Matthew Arnold

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

Kabbalah

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

Sue Patton Thoele

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frederick Buechne

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Sir Winston Churchill

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

Albert Einstein

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.

Karin Mei? enburg, translator and autho

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Garth Henrichs

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Black Elk

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

Mickey Friedman

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

Bible, Proverbs 23: 7

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

South

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

Jean - Francois Rameau

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

Robert Collie