Quotes
Quotes about Art
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical recordâKrakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the agesâyou have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you. -Julianne Kepley.
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him.
How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.
If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first. [Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]
