Art Quotes

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

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

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

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 best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.

Alessandro Pronzato

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napolean Hill

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Author Unknown

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

Roger Zelazny

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Start slow and taper off.

Walt Stack

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783

The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Jacob Getlar Smith

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Black Elk

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3