Art Quotes

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.

Christian Cardell Corbet

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Albert Coombs Barnes

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - - The King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.

King Farouk of Egypt, 1948

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

T. S. Eliot