Quotes
Quotes about Art
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.
My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews could have Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabic to the Arabs. spoken on the Terry Gross Show .. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace group Peace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.
We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.
I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap--that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.
Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta sunt.]
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Nature is not human hearted.
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.
