Art Quotes

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

J. K. Galbraith

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

Eric Hoffe

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

Miles Davis

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Gustav Jung

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

Virgil

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

Mary Bertone

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

A. R. Orage

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".

The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.

Native American

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.

Child Age 15

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Sir Philip Sidney

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Mark Twain

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord Byron

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Cindy Lew

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.

Charlotte Bronte

Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis