Art Quotes - Page 267

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality.

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

If you want to change the world, first change your heart.

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.

My heart is forever in Giverny.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

The fact that our hearts don't all speak in the same way is not cause or justification to discriminate.

Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind.

If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?

The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.

Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.