Art Quotes

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Manly P. Hall

Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.

Blaise Pascal

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

Biblical Prove

Art is anything you can get away with.

Andy Warhol

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.

Eliza Mother Stewart

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Horace

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

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

You are not an artist, an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.

Eric Pio

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Kelle

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Francis Bacon

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

William Butler Yeats

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Prove

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.

Anne Brown

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Ludwig von Beethoven

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Russian prove

Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.

Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

James Cash Penney

Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Will Rogers

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

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

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

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Felix G. Rohatyn

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Marshall McLuhan

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Donald O. Rickte

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

George Whitefield