Art Quotes

A heart that loves is always young.

Greek Prove

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

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

Anne Brown

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

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

James Cash Penney

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Samuel Adams

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

George Moore

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

Give all to love obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

Unknown

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3. 6. 7]

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

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

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.

Ernst Jnger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.

Native American Praye

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles De Gaulle

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A Bartlett Giamatti

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

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.

Zig Zigla

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions