Art Quotes

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3. 6. 7]

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

James Beard

A large part of virtue consists in good habits.

William Paley

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

Andrew Schneide

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holme

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Mao Zedong

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Milo Bloom

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.

Ulysses S. Grant

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Kahlil Gibran

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.

Galileo Galilei

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

E. M. Cioran

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

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

And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.

Koran

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

Kabbalah

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I. vii

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin Prove

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch, Morals

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Anon.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

Barbara de Angelis

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

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Bruce Lee

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Norman Vincent Peale

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butle