Art Quotes

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

Henry Tuckerman

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Zig Zigla

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3. 6. 7]

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Sir Winston Churchill

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia

Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Jim Beggs

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkne

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Alan Ashley - Pitt

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.

Edward H. S. Terry

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Unknown

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Rmy de Gourmont

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215

Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.

Raynor Schein

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

Auguste Renoi

So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

Barbara M. White

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Russian prove

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

George Burns

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Unknown

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.

Albert Einstein

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

Robert S. McNamara, former U. S. Secretary of Defense