Quotes
Quotes about Art
The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.]
Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear, But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man. - John Gay,
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
The heart is half a prophet.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak, Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".
