Art Quotes

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Richard Wagne

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

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Miguel de Cervantes

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight D. Morrow

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

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

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Elizabeth Bowen

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.

Unknown

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

Carl Polloi

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luthe

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Anonymous

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Jules Feiffe

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

A child is the root of the heart.

Maria de Jesus

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

Alexandre Dumas

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

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

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Arab Prove

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

Bernard Berenson

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer, The Iliad

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Lao Tzu

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

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Stanislaw Lec

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein