Art Quotes
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.Friedrich Nietzsche
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.George Eliot
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.Henry Ward Beeche
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.Charles Dickens
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.Edith Wharton
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andr Gide
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.Dr. Arbthnot
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.Heinrich Heine
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.W. Somerset Maugham
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
This is the last of earth! I am content.John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.A. N. Whitehead
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
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.Sir Walter Raleigh
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.John 174 Bible
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.William Ralph Inge
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.Winston Churchhill
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.W. C. Fields
There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.Venezuelan Prove
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
