Quotes about art

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

— Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

— Judith Anderson

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

— Bernard M. Baruch

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

— Bible

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

— Bible

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

— Hugh Blair

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

— Sir John Bowring

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The heart will break, but broken live on.

— Lord Byron

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

— Thomas Campbell

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

— Thomas Carlyle

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

— Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

— Carlos Castaneda

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

— Lord Chesterfield

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

— Deepak Chopra

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

— Princess of Wales Diana

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

— Princess of Wales Diana

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

— Louise Driscoll

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

— Meister Eckhart

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

— Albert Einstein

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

— St. Francis De Sales

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

— Benjamin Franklin

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

— Robert Frost

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

— Gutzkow

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

— David Hare

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

— Johann Gottfried Von Herder

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

— Evander Holyfield

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

— Jafar

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

— Jami

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

— Kabir

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

— Helen Keller

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

— Thomas Kempis

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

— Thomas Kempis

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

— James Russell Lowell

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

— Martin Luther

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

— Martin Luther

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

— Joseph De Maistre

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

— Nelson Mandela

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

— Og Mandino

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

— Herman Melville

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

— Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

— Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

— H. L. Mencken

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

— Bette Midler

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

— Ovid

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

— Ovid

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

— Theodore Parker

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

— Blaise Pascal

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

— Wendell Phillips

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

— Antonio Porchia

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

— Proverb

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

— Proverb

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

— Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

— Chinese Proverb

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

— Danish Proverb

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

— Turkish Proverb

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

— Ruckett

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

— Jalal-Uddin Rumi

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

— Richard of Saint-Victor

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

— William Shakespeare

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

— Charles M. Schulz

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

— Bertha Von Suttner

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

— Margaret Thatcher

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

— The Land Before Time

Love can heal a broken heart.

— Source Unknown

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

— Source Unknown

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

— Source Unknown

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

— Source Unknown

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

— Source Unknown

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

— Source Unknown

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

— Source Unknown

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

— Thomas Vaughan

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

— Warren Wiersbe

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

— Robert Burns

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

— Allen Ginsberg

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

— Helen Rowland

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

— George Bernard Shaw

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

— George Bernard Shaw

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

— Oscar Wilde

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

— Ambrose Bierce

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

— George Eliot

Balance is the enemy of art.

— Richard Eyre

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

— Theodor W. Adorno

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

— A. Alvarez

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

— Lindsay Anderson

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

— Jean Arp

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

— James Baldwin