Art Quotes - Page 304

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.

When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

To be honest I had learnt martial arts for a girl. So I started learning the art to impress her, but eventually I started loving martial art more than the girl. So later it became a habit it became fun.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

The heart of taijutsu is important and only through training will one polish that heart (like a gem) and understand true taijutsu.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.