Art Quotes

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Milo Bloom

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.

Biblical Prove

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Richard Adams

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Frances Burnett

Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

Ralph Kine

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Ingrid Bergman

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Kelle

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Thomas Tusse

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Socrates, Apology, (Plato)

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight D. Morrow

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

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

Norman Vincent Peale

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

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.

Tod Johnson

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p. 13

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

Steven King, The Stand

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Charles Kingsley

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Harold S. Geneen

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

Al Capone

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Clive Staples Lewis