Art Quotes

Native american praye - and the wind said may you be as strong as the...
Charles m. schwa - in my wide association in life, meeting with many...
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles, 1966
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.
Becky Rodenbeck
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Franklin P. Jones
Thomas mann - the only religious way to think of death is as a...
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
Joan Winmill Brown
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
Eric Hoffe
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
Horace Bushnell
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Anonymous
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Dave Wine
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.
Russell M. Nelson
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Hasidic Saying
I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.
Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.
Child Age 15
Bad mind, bad heart.
Anacharsis Cloots
An understanding heart is everything is 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 Gustav Jung
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature".
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920