HeArtful Quotes
Text Box: The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not been created. Creation comes before distribution- or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement. - Ayn Rand We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. - Joseph Addison It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. - St Fancis of Assisi Once the “what” is decided, the “how” always follows. We must not make the “how” an excuse for not facing and accepting the “what”. - Pearl S. Buck The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. - Flora Whittemore Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson For the mystic what is how.  For the craftsman how is what.  For the artist what and how are one. - William McElcheran Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. - John Ruskin What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton The bigger fear that people feel threatened by is the fear of change. Artists bring change, because you cannot be creative and just duplicate or illustrate known facts. - John Cage I think that art is not the monopoly of the artist only. I do believe that the human being could not survive without art. I think that one of the tragedies of the present world is that we have relegated art to just a secondary role. Man can live without science in the modern sense of the word. The human being cannot survive without art. Art means to make something of your life with your body and with your surroundings on a human scale. Art doesn't mean to be a great performer or a great creator. - Raimon Panikkar The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. - Marcel Duchamp When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. - Jacob Lawrence If the artist sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. - Caspar David Friedrich How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit the Frog, muppet Art is idea. It is not enough to draw, paint, and sculpt. An artist should be able to think. - Gordon Woods Art should cause violence to be set aside. And it is only art that can accomplish this. - Leo N. Tolstoy Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your