Quotes
Quotes about Art
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
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.
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful." -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part.
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.
When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
