Art & Creativity Sayings

The art of calculation is indispensable in commerce and daily life.

Wine is the enemy of the liver and the friend of the heart.

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity.

Saddened by the times I weep at the flowers tormented by the partings even the birds startle my heart.

He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twelf-month, and excuse hym atte fulle.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

The people of this city are very fond of music and dancing.

I saw a man who had no arms, and he was able to write with his feet.

To listen is to plant a seed in the silent heart.

He wraps gold in dust, who wishes for beauty without struggle.

Words are the empty shells; listen for the song beneath them.

The lock of the world is on the door of the heart.

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

The path is not in the sky; the path is in the heart.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a house, he paints it with many colors, and he decorates it with many ornaments.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Men are strange creatures—they pretend to be serious but are ruled by their desires.

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on.