Quotes
Quotes about Art
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
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?
Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it.
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, is it, for that reason, to be of no account?
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
If I can stop one Heart from breaking
A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." -Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
