Art Quotes

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

This is the last of earth! I am content.

John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

Graffito

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

Bill Cosby

Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

Ralph Kine

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Winchell

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Dan Quayle, 11/30/88

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.

Napolean Hill

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

Barbara de Angelis

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

Shneur Zalman

Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Will Rogers

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

David Richerby

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Edward Hubbell Chaplin

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato, The Republic

Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.

Sir Robert Owen

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange