Art Quotes

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

Charles McCabe

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kenneth Star... has done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.

Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

A light heart lives long.

Irish Prove

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

Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

Marcus Terentius Varro, On Agriculture

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Brenda Ueland

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Prove

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.

The Dhammapada

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

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I. vii

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel