Art Quotes - Page 331

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah.

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.

Let the Bible fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.

Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.

I paint my own reality.

It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.

Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.