Art Quotes

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald Mc Leish

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Prove

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Randall Wallace

Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.

Nora Ephron

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

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

Jesus Christ

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Henri Frdric Amiel

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Alexander Pope

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - Never.

Marguerite de Valois

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.

Yvette Gilbert, (1865 - 1944)

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Richard Adams

Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato, The Republic

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Francis Bacon

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Derek Bethune

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works. N. B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219

Ecclesiastes 97

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Daphne Rose Kingma

Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

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

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

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