Art Quotes
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.John Evelyn
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.Thich Nhat Hanh
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.Henry Ward Beeche
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance.Frank Moore Colby
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.Pietro Aretino
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.Baltasar Gracian
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...Pablo Picasso
The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.Alessandro Pronzato
Politics is largely a matter of heart.R. A. Butle
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.Woodrow Wilson
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Charles Dickens
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.Thomas Fulle
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King, Jr.
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.J. Krishnamarti
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.Marian Anderson
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.Fredrich Halm
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Politics is the art of the possible.Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.Cicero
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.Max Eastman
