Art Quotes

Elain heffner, o magazine, may 2003 - the art of mothering is to teach the art of...
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
John hay - all who think cannot but see there is a sanction...
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us - - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
Unknown
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfou
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Percival
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Sir Winston Churchill
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfou
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure - Thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.
Ernst Jnger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Marilyn C. Barrick
As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.
Maitri Upanishads
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.
Ecclesiastes
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.
Anna Garlin Spence
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard Avishai
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
Thomas Mann
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
Richard Phillips Feynman
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthu
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg