Art Quotes - Page 249

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.

There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize. Thus the commandment: 'Judge not.'

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.

Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyone’s heart. Then your heart will go out in sympathy and compassion for everybody.

All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not the head.

Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

One must have a tough mind, and a soft heart.

Discipline is the fuel of achievement.

On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.