Art Quotes

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Thomas Andrew Bailey

If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Zig Zigla

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

Terry Josephson

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Sir John Lubbock

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

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Albert Coombs Barnes

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

Mahatma Gandhi

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

I am a part of all that I have met.

John Milton

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

John Updike

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

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

Charles De Gaulle

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

John Evelyn

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Mark Twain

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Mao Zedong

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

William Drayton

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Arthur Baldwin

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis

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