Art Quotes

My son, give me thine heart...

Proverbs 2326a Bible

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

Alexander Pope

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Thomas Fulle

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson, (attributed)

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets

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

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

A gentle word is never lost... It cheers the heart when sorrow - Tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.

Hastings

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

William Shakespeare

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blai

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.

James Madison

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

Reubin Askew

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.

Robert E. Kahn

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius, History

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butle

California, the department store state.

Raymond Chandle

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman... on Love & Relationships

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

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

Henry Ward Beeche

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

David Richerby

Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.

Rich Hall, "Sniglets".

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Kelle