Art Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the child of Nature.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Resolve and thou art free.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Great is the art of beginning.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If thou art worn and hard beset, With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget; If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow