Art Quotes
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.Virgil
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us - - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.Tom Lehre
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
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
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.Vincent Van Gogh
Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?Elayne Boosle
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.Blessing Irish
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.Aldous Huxley
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.Louis Kronenberge
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.Bertrand Russell
Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.Ralph Kine
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.Unknown
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.H. L. Mencken
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.Robert Benchley
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.Albert Einstein
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.John Milton
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.Emmet Fox
A light heart lives long.Irish Prove
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise Pascal
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.James Arthur Baldwin
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.Vincent Van Gogh
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.Hannah Whitall Smith
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.Ernest Benn
