Quotes
Quotes about Art
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.
. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .
It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. [Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates, et absurdas opiniones.]
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.
What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
