Art Quotes
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
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.Johann von Goethe
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.George Moore
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Behan
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.James E. Faust
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.Michael Dorris
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.Aeschylus
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.Chief Seattle
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.Elizabeth Ashley
You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.Henri Frdric Amiel
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
Great artists have no country.Alfred du Masset
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.Victor Hugo
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.Marcus Tullius Cicero
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?Scott Adams
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.Charles Peguy
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.Mother Theresa
None of us is as smart as all of us.Phil Condit
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.Henry David Thoreau
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
