Art Quotes

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beeche

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

Saint Augustine, Confessions

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Ann Landers

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge

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

Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Zelda

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran

Listen to your heart, because in the end it is your heart that matters.

Jennifer Tyle

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Albert Einstein

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Marian Anderson

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

Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Hiram Powers

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.

William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhaue

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

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.

Raynor Schein

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year - - - Everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operato

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Reubin Askew