Art Quotes

The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.

Edwin Markham

In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody.

Carl Sandburg

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore De Balzac

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

Moby, quoted on CNN. com, March 2005

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery

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)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Mort Sahl

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

A. W. Toze

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Marge Piercy

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

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

George Gissing

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.

Swami Sivanada

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five - Cent nickel.

Franklin P. Adams

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Frank Moore Colby

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Unknown

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

Robert S. McNamara, former U. S. Secretary of Defense

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

R. H. Grant