Art Quotes

Frances burnett - if nature made you a giver, your hands are born...
Thomas campbell - without the smile from partial beauty won, oh...
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.
Pearl Buck
Swami sivanada - there is a tricycle in man. he knows, he feels...
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
Native American Praye
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
Oscar Wilde
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Sir William Osle
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - If you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
Jean Ke
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato, The Republic
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
John Andrew Holmes
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.
Gaius Julius Caesa
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Turkish Prove
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Erich Fromm
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.
Chinese Prove
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
Robert J. McKain
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
Henry M. Wriston
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Pete
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Kelle
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Mount Hufstedle