Art Quotes - Page 302

A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.

Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

My father represents a very interesting challenge to the Republican party. I think this is taking people by surprise. (But) I think that's why he's so welcomed by the American voters, because they want somebody who says what they are thinking.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

I always feel better and more beautiful in things that I'm comfortable in so I was fine with putting a little makeup on and keeping my leggings on and going to a party.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

People become artists out of despair.