Art Quotes
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.Aristide Briand
There is no gravity. The earth sucks.Graffito
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.Helen Kelle
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.Thomas Fulle
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.Peter Nivio Zarlenga
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.Robert A. Heinlein
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.George Carlin
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.Max Lerne
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works. N. B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219Ecclesiastes 97
All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.Longfellow
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.Russell M. Nelson
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.Henry Van Dyke
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.Mort Sahl
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.Joseph Conrad
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.Stephen Hawking
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.Isaac Watts
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.Plato, The Republic
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".
There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.Venezuelan Prove
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.W. Somerset Maugham
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.James E. Faust
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.Henry David Thoreau
