Art Quotes - Page 342

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of those artists that I have really sampled so much and just been so inspired by... You know, he is the original ‘soul man.’

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.

Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart