Art Quotes

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire

Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Anthony Robbins

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

Great artists have no country.

Alfred du Masset

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

James Thurbe

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardne

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

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

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Unknown

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.

H. A. Kramers

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

Willa Sibert Cathe

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

Terry Josephson

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Jason Berg

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Aldous Huxley