Art Quotes - Page 298

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

LOVE WHAT YOU DO! Whatever that is, put your entire heart & soul into it, or don't do it at all.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things. To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

The earth shall be left to no one.

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.

When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he'll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny that word.

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.