Art Quotes

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Homer, The Odyssey

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

James Cash Penney

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.

Shriekback, "Cradle Song".

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus

Hear me, my chiefs I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Robert Valett

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Albert Einstein

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

Al Capone

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Henry Beston

There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken

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

Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince

Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

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

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.

Napolean Hill

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Mary McLeod Bethune

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

Dostoyevsky

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.

Sir Robert Owen

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton