Art Quotes

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.

Sun Bea

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.

Vivian Baxte

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

The out - Of - work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

Bad mind, bad heart.

Anacharsis Cloots

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

John Milton

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Socrates

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Dave Barry

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.

Author Unknown

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin P. Adams

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Jay Leno

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

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

William Shakespeare