Art Quotes

Art is I; science is we.

Claude Bernard

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer, The Iliad

We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

Jeff Warne

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

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

Great artists have no country.

Alfred du Masset

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that? s in it, And? you? ll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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

Everyone is the age of their heart.

Guatemalan Prove

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.

Unknown

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry G. Stott, 1907

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Sir William Osle

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

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.

George Carlin

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

J. K. Galbraith

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Frank Moore Colby

Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Henry Drummond

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.

Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.

Leonardo DaVinci

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)

BesideCother art to be learned - - Not to see what is not.

Maria Mitchell

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero