If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts as for that subtle something that quality of air that emanation from old trees that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart the place where love resides.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Of life's two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared there will always be confusion and hate wars and class antagonisms.

It is very important to generate a good attitude a good heart as much as possible. From this happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

It is not the body's posture but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

With care and skill and cunning art She parried Time's malicious dart And kept the years at bay Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

For his heart was in his work and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur And polish it up with art But the word that sways and stirs and stays Is the word that comes from the heart.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty but is it Art?'

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.