Quotes
Quotes about Art
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
What is art but a way of seeing?
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
