James Russell Lowell
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Bette Davis
“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.”
Alfred de Musset
“One must not trifle with love.”
Khalil Gibran
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and…
Thomas Aquinas
“Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
Aristotle
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
James Thurber
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
Gertrude Stein
“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
Helen Hunt Jackson
“I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”
Margaret Atwood
“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am…
William Morris Hunt
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
Muhammad Iqbal
“I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing…
Pierre Corneille
“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.”
Wilson Mizner
“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”
Rene Descartes
“I think; therefore I am.”
Thomas Moore
“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to…
Franz Liszt
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
Mason Cooley
“In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.”
Rebecca West
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Sometimes love is stronger than a man’s convictions.”
Anton Chekhov
“The sea has neither meaning nor pity.”
Edgar Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Pat Buckley
“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
Pierre Bonnard
“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.”
Juvenal
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”