Art Quotes

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

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.

Robin Tyle

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry G. Stott, 1907

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can.

Anon.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Al Rogers

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

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

Unknown

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

Janet Long

Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.

The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Marguerite de Valois

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

E. M. Forste

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5

This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .

Phylos the Tibetan

Hear the other side. Audi Partem Alteram.

Saint Augustine

If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.

Will Rogers

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Lewis Ward

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome

Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

Author Unknown

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Michael Talbot

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Virgil

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations