Art Quotes
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
Where you start is not as important as where you finish.Zig Zigla
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.Novalis
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.Saint Augustine, Confessions
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.Marlene Dietrich
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
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.Henry Fielding
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
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.Eudora Welty
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.Groucho Marx
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.Maya Angelou
We shall not 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
Start slow and taper off.Walt Stack
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
Discretion is not the better part of biography.Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.Thomas Merton
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.Bruce Lee
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.Homer, The Iliad
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart.Carlos Castaneda
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.Ernest Benn
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
