Art Quotes

Karin mei? enburg, translator and autho - the stability of the whole is guaranteed by the...
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.
Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Bible, proverbs 23: 7 - as a man thinks in his heart, so is he....
Virginia woolf - each has his past shut in him like the leaves of...
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
Kahlil Gibran
Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!
David Letterman
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Jacob Getlar Smith
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.
Edward H. S. Terry
Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.
Charles McCabe
A gentle word is never lost... It cheers the heart when sorrow - Tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.
Hastings
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo.
William Shakespeare
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
Russell L. Ackoff
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Mark Twain
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Kahlil Gibran
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Bertie Forbes
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
Berenson
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Loukes
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Al Capone
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Longfellow
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Rmy de Gourmont