Art Quotes - Page 252

Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that.